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East Berlin "death strip" of the Berlin Wall, as seen from the Axel Springer AG Building, 1984 East Berliners and East Germans could not, at first, travel to West Berlin or West Germany at all. This regulation remained in force essentially until the fall of the Wall, but over the years several exceptions to these rules were introduced, the most ...
The Berlin Wall, like the much longer ... Zimmerstraße; bled in the death strip before a large West Berlin crowd Peter Fechter 28: Hans-Dieter Wesa [53] 10 Jan 1943: ...
The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, ... This section of the Wall's "death strip" featured Czech hedgehogs, a guard tower and a cleared area, 1977.
One November night 35 years ago, the Berlin Wall cracked and thousands of Berliners poured through. The Iron Curtain had already started to tremor by this point: travel restrictions were easing in ...
The wall and the Todesstreifen (death strip) Destruction of the city; Building of the wall " Es geschah an der Mauer" ("It happened at the wall") At the corner of Gartenstraße and Bernauer Straße, a visitor centre was opened. The outdoor area of the memorial west of Berlin Nordbahnhof was transformed into an Erinnerungslandschaft (memorial ...
The plan was to hide in a carpenter's workshop near the wall on Zimmerstrasse and, after observing the border guards from there, to jump out of a window into the "death-strip" (a strip running between the main wall and a parallel fence which they had recently started to construct), run across it, and climb over the two-metre (6.5 ft) wall ...
Former Todestreifen (death strip), from East Berlin to West Berlin. This is where Dorit Schmiel and her party attempted their escape to West Berlin in 1962. Dorit Schmiel (April 25, 1941 – February 19, 1962) was a German seamstress who became the thirteenth known person to die at the Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Wall fell 27 years ago Wednesday. The imposing wall that divided East and West Germany was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989. The wall, also known as the ...