Behind the Berlin Wall

Behind the Berlin Wall
Author: Patrick Major
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 019924328X

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On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth.


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Pages: 374
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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The long path to the Berlin Wall began in 1945, when Josef Stalin instructed the Communist Party to take power in the Soviet occupation zone while the three Wes
A Wall of Our Own
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Paul M. Farber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-17 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivota
Behind the Berlin Wall
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Patrick Major
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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After the Berlin Wall
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Pages: 285
Authors: K. Gerstenberger
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-21 - Publisher: Springer

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Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on