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Victims of the Wall. Well over 100,000 citizens of the GDR tried to escape across the inner-German border or the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1988. More than 600 of them were shot and killed by GDR border guards or died in other ways during their escape attempt. They drowned, suffered fatal accidents, or killed themselves when they were caught.
8. Nov. 2019 · Three months later, massive pro-democracy protests and confusion among East German officials prompted a rush on the border and the wall that had divided Berlin for nearly 30 years. The wall was ...
18. Okt. 2022 · In 1962, people started digging tunnels under the Berlin wall. It was the most used way of escape, more than 12 tunnels were built in 1962 under the Berlin Wall. Some escape attempts ended well, while others did not. One of the latter also marks the story of Siegfried Noffke, a 22-year-old man who wanted nothing more than to bring his wife and ...
20. Okt. 2014 · A portion of the Berlin Wall as photographed in 1975, toward the east. (Photo credit: Edward Valachovic) 1) The West was bedeviling the East with a vigorous campaign of recruiting East German ...
4. Nov. 2014 · Andrea Grunau / es11/04/2014. West German protests against the construction of the Berlin Wall couldn't change anything. So politicans took a different approach toward achieving long-held dreams ...
15. Aug. 2011 · But to me, the one image that always best epitomized the tragedy of the wall was a poster-sized photograph I bought at the Berlin Wall when I was an exchange student in Germany in 1978. It was ...
West Berliners gathered on the western side of the gate to demonstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's mayor, Willy Brandt, who had returned from a federal election campaign tour in West Germany earlier the same day. The wall passed directly by the western side of the gate, closing it throughout the Berlin Wall period, which ended on 22 December 1989.
