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Between Block 10 and Block 11 stood the "Death Wall" (reconstructed after the war) where thousands of prisoners were lined up for execution by firing squad. [1] The block contained special torture chambers in which various punishments were applied to prisoners.
The wall of death, motordrome, velodrome [3] or well of death is a carnival sideshow featuring a silo- or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder, typically ranging from 20 to 36 feet (6.1 to 11.0 m) in diameter and made of wooden planks, inside which motorcyclists, or the drivers of miniature automobiles and tractors travel along the vertical wall and ...
The "fourth-generation Wall", known officially as "Stützwandelement UL 12.11" (retaining wall element UL 12.11), was the final and most sophisticated version of the Wall. Begun in 1975 [ 80 ] and completed about 1980, [ 81 ] it was constructed from 45,000 separate sections of reinforced concrete, each 3.6 metres (12 ft) high and 1.2 m (3.9 ft ...
There were numerous deaths at the Berlin Wall, which stood as a barrier between West Berlin and East Berlin from 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989. Before the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions, many by crossing over the border from
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 Wall of Death is a permanently sited public art installation [3] located under the University Bridge in Seattle, alongside the Burke-Gilman Trail and NE 40th Street in the University District. It was designed and built by Mowry Baden and his son, Colin, in 1993.
The Wall Comes Tumbling Down, excerpt from a biography of Leonard Bernstein at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 June 2008) Berlin Wall at Zimmerstrasse, Photos near the location of Fechter's death, taken in 1961; ICA Performance, the performance and screening of the "Death of Peter Fechter" Jordan Tannahill: "Peter Fechter, 59 Minutes"
The wall of death is a carnival or fairground sideshow. Wall of death may also refer to: Wall of death (moshing) Wall of Death; The Wall of Death, a public art installation in Seattle, Washington, US; The Wall of Death (Scotland Yard), short film