German Unity Day

3 October 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

Tag der Deutschen Einheit 2011 © bonn.de

Tag der Deutschen Einheit 2011 © bonn.de

For 28 years, the Berlin Wall cemented the political division of Germany and Europe. It became a symbol of the Cold War, which split the world politically into an eastern and a western hemisphere. Over one hundred people died attempting to get past the heavily guarded Wall. In the end, the internal and external pressure on the GDR leadership increased so much that a chain of events was triggered that led to the Wall’s coming down. The website Chronicle of the Wall is the most comprehensive multi-media source of information on this topic available at the present time. It includes secondary literature, lists of links and films, original sound and reports from East and West, as well as a chronology of the history of the Wall and numerous text sources.   read more…

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