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THE BERLIN WALL - FREDERICK TAYLOR KARTONIERT (TB)

The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin
during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days  it had
started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of
the Cold War: the Berlin Wall.   A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two 
unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the
first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse. This threat would vanish only
when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison  breached it on the historic night of
9 November 1989.   The Berlin Wall reveals the strange and chilling story of how the initial
barrier system was conceived  then systematically extended  adapted and strengthened over
almost thirty years. Patrolled by vicious dogs and by guards on shoot-to-kill orders  the Wall
with its more than 300 towers  became a wired and lethally booby-trapped monument to a world
torn apart by fiercely antagonistic ideologies.   The Wall had tragic consequences in personal
and political terms  affecting the lives of Germans and non-Germans alike in a myriad of cruel
inhuman and occasionally absurd ways. The Berlin Wall is the definitive account of a divided
city and its people.

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