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Home / Society / History / By Time Period / Twentieth Century / Cold War / Eastern Europe / Berlin Wall
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- A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall - A photo exhibition and history of the Berlin Wall sponsored by the Caen Memorial and the Deutsches Historisches Museum of Berlin.
www.wall-berlin.org/gb/berlin.htm
- Berlin 1983 - A travelogue and history of Berlin and the Wall
www.restless-soul.co.uk/berlin1.htm
- Berlin Wall - For the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Caen Memorial and the DHM of Berlin are holding an exhibition of photos on the Wall.
www.wall-berlin.org
- Berlin Wall Art For Sale - Commercial site offering paintings and a short history of the Berlin Wall. Provides information for artists wanting to participate in the art program.
berlinwallart.org
- Berlin Wall Online - Read about the history, facts, construction, measurements, timelime, escape attempts, maps, and photographs.
www.berlinwall.ws
- Berlin Wall, Past and Present - Provides articles about the origins, operation, and eventual fall of the Berlin Wall, including maps, images, and specifications.
www.berlinwall.itgo.com
- Berliner Mauer-Berlin Wall-Muro Berlim-Mur-Photographs - Links and imagery of the Berlin Wall. Available in German, French, and Portuguese.
www.dieberlinermauer.de
- Bernauer Strasse and the Berlin Wall - Read about this famous street which divided the city during the "wall" years. Includes historical information and links.
www.geocities.com/bernauer_strasse
- BiW: The Berlin Wall - Provides background information on the Berlin Wall. Discusses the reasons the wall was erected, the construction process, its dimensions, its dismantling in 1989, and the creation of a Berlin Wall memorial in 1998.
userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html
- CBC News - The Magazine - The Ghost of the Wall - A Canadian news report on the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath. Discusses the hard realities faced by the citizens of the former East Berlin and East Germany.
cbc.ca/national/magazine/berlin/index.html
- Chris De Witt's Berlin Wall Website - A regularly updated website about the Berlin Wall by an eyewitness to the event of 1989 and in the years since. Includes a gallery of Wall imagery, an essay on the fall of the Wall and its aftermath, and an archive of earlier photos and essays.
www.appropriatesoftware.com/BerlinWall
- CNN - Cold War - Berlin Wall: 1958-63 - Documents the building of the Berlin Wall and the first attempts by East Germans to escape over it. Includes the full text of script, a multimedia recap of the Wall going up, and links to related issues.
cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/09
- East German Propaganda: A 1962 Defense of the Berlin Wall - A 1962 brochure by the East German government offering various arguments defending the Berlin Wall as a necessity to the survival of the German Democratic Republic. It was published in English and aimed at foreign audiences.
www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/wall.htm
- East German Propaganda: Arguments Justifying the Berlin Wall (1961) - A German propaganda pamphlet giving advice to East German propagandists on explaining the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/argu61.htm
- History: Europe in Motion - the Berlin Wall - Artists for Freedom - A collection of artistic graffiti drawn on the Berlin Wall. Includes a discussion of the Cold War's impact on Europe and the future of Europe after the collapse of the Communism and the eastward expansion of European Union.
berlin1989.com/history.html
- Kennedy at the Berlin Wall - An exhibit by the Kennedy Presidential Library of President John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) speech. Includes images and recordings of the speech.
www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/kennedy.html
- Newseum: The Berlin Wall - Interactive exhibit on news coverage of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its destruction in 1989.
www.newseum.org/berlinwall/index.htm
- The Berlin Wall - Hystorical panorama of this structure, with photos and links.
www.guillotine.net
- The Berlin Wall - Facts and Figures - A summary of the history of the Berlin Wall, with facts, figures and route of the wall, from the Press and Information Office of the Berlin Senate in English and German.
www.berlin.de/rbm-skzl/mauer/index_e.html
- The Berlin Wall History in Text and Pictures - A photo essay of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its downfall in 1989.
members.aol.com/johball/berlinwl.htm
- The Fall of the Berlin Wall - A personal account of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Andreas Ramos describes his experiences of the 11th and 12th of Nov. 1989.
www.andreas.com/berlin.html
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