Berlin Wall’s Construction Tops Aug. 13’s Defining Moments in History
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Six decades since the GDR lifted the fence of shame in 1961 to curb the mass exodus of citizens fleeing socialism.
AfD - Alternative for Germany: Berlin (ots) - On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the construction of the Wall, Tino Chrupalla, Federal Speaker of the Alternative for Germany, explains: "Today, 65 years ago, the construction of the Berlin Wall began. Before that, many thousand people had left the GDR via East Berlin. ...
Berlin Wall’s Construction Tops Aug. 13’s Defining Moments in History
On August 13, one of the most far-reaching events in global history took place in 1961, when East German authorities began building the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire and concrete quickly cut through streets, neighborhoods, and even families in Berlin, turning the city into the clearest symbol of the Cold War divide between East and West. At the time, the wall was meant to stop the large flow of people leaving East Germany for the West. Its impact was…
The construction of the Berlin Wall, which divided the current German capital for 28 years and became the physical representation of the Iron Curtain between the Soviet bloc and the West, began a day like this Thursday 65 years ago, with the one named ‘Operation Rosa’.
Does an invisible wall of Germany split after the real wall? In the memory of the monstrous building of the division, the political exhortation to learn lessons from history is mixed.
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