EAN: 9783814802725

THE BERLIN WALL - THOMAS FLEMMING KARTONIERT (TB)

It was Sunday 13th August  1961. At 1.11 a.m. the East Berlin radio service interrupted their
Night-time Melodies for a special announcement: The governments of the States of the Warsaw
Pact appeal to the parliament and government of the GDR and suggest that they ensure that the
subversion against the countries of the Socialist Bloc is effectively barred and that a
reliable guard is set up around the whole area of West Berlin. This pretentious declaration
could only mean one thing: the sector border was to be closed and West Berlin sealed off. Using
a wealth of fascinating photographs and documents  this book tells the full story of the Berlin
Wall  from the first barbed wire barriers in August 1961 to the 3.6 metre Fourth Generation
Wall and the electronic High-Tech-Border planned for the future. It describes the feelings and
reactions of the people of East and West Berlin from the day the Wall went up until the events
of 9th November 1989  which led to the collapse of what had been the most closely-guarded
border in the world.

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