In addition to what we discussed in class regarding walls around the world and throughout time, we also discussed the Berlin Wall:
Why was Berlin so important?
The Blockade: 1948
Berlin Airlift
2.3 million tons of food, fuel,
and other goods.
“Wir danken dem
Bewahrer unserer Freiheit”
(“We thank the Preserver of our Freedom.”)
Tensions arise in 1958
3 million had left East Germany,
through Berlin, from 1949 to 1958
June of 1961
19,000 leave
"Niemand hat die
Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!"
(No one has the intention of erecting a wall!).
July=30,000
August=16,000 in the first 11
days
August 13=construction begins
(“Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark”)
12 checkpoints
Soviet instability:
Problems at home…
Problems in Afghanistan…
Problems in Poland…
…by Fall of 1989, Communist
satellite countries began to fall.
Bruce Springsteen, East Berlin Concert:
"The Boss" told the crowd in German, "I've come to play rock 'n'
roll for you in the hope that one day all the barriers will be torn down."
NOVEMBER 9TH…
Three individuals…
Anchorman Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs
Wall guard
Harald Jäger
The
formal reunification of East and West Germany did not happen until Oct. 3, 1990
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