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Simple Storys : ein Roman aus der ostdeutschen Provinz
Stories about the inhabitants of a deadbeat little town in the eastern part of Germany, Altenburg, offering a picture of what life has been since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin
On August 13, 1961, under the cover of darkness, East German authorities sealed the border between East and West Berlin using a hastily constructed barbed wire fence. Over the next twenty-eight years of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall grew to become an ever-present physical and psychological divider in this capital city and a powerful symbol of Cold War tensions. Similarly, stark polarities arose in nearly every aspect of public and private life, including the built environment.InArchitecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided BerlinEmily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in both halves of Berlin during the Wall era, revealing the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural, and social identities. Pugh uncovers the roles played by organizations such as the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage and the Building Academy in conveying the political narrative of their respective states through constructed spaces. She also provides an overview of earlier notable architectural works, to show the precursors for design aesthetics in Berlin at large, and considers projects in the post-Wall period, to demonstrate the ongoing effects of the Cold War.Overall, Pugh offers a compelling case study of a divided city poised between powerful contending political and ideological forces, and she highlights the effort expended by each side to influence public opinion in Europe and around the World through the manipulation of the built environment.
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Breach
\"The first novel in a new Cold War fantasy series, where the Berlin Wall is made entirely of magic. When a breach unexpectedly appears in the wall, spies from both sides swarm to the city as World War III threatens to spark\"--Provided by publisher.
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The path to the Berlin Wall
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 Western allies secured their areas of influence. When Germany was split into separate states in 1949, Berlin remained divided into four sectors, with West Berlin surrounded by the GDR but lingering as a captivating showcase for Western values and goods. Following a failed Soviet attempt to expel the allies from West Berlin with a blockade in 1948-49, a second crisis ensued from 1958-61, during which the Soviet Union demanded once and for all the withdrawal of the Western powers and the transition of West Berlin to a \"Free City.\" Ultimately Nikita Khrushchev decided to close the border in hopes of halting the overwhelming exodus of East Germans into the West.
Tracing this path from a German perspective, Manfred Wilke draws on recently published conversations between Khrushchev and Walter Ulbricht, head of the East German state, in order to reconstruct the coordination process between these two leaders and the events that led to building the Berlin Wall.
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Essentials. Government & civics. The Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 symbolized the decline of the communist Soviet Union, and a Cold War victory for the American values of freedom and democracy.
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What was the Berlin Wall?
\"In 1961, overnight a concrete border went up, dividing the city of Berlin into two parts - East and West. The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a mirror to post-WWII politics and the Cold War Era when the United States and the USSR were enemies, always on the verge of war. Author Nico Medina explains the spy-vs-spy politics of the time as well as what has happened since the removal of one of the most divisive landmarks in modern history.\"-- From publisher's description.
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DK - 100 events that made history. Episode 25, The fall of the Berlin Wall
Trace the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West, to its dramatic fall in 1989, leading to Germany's reunification.
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Fast hell
\"Alles ist genauso passiert, soweit ich mich erinnere... Ihre Wege Kreuyen sich schon, laufen nebeneinander, lange, bevor Alexander Osang beschließt, Uwes Geschichte aufzuschreiben. Und mit ihm aufbricht auf einem Schiff in die Vergangenheit. Die weißen Nächte über der Ostsee - sie sind fast hell, verheißungsvoll und trügerisch, so wie die Nachwendejahre, die beide geprägt haben. Doch während Uwe der Unbestimmte, Flirrende bleibt, während sich seine Geschichte im vagen Licht der Sommernächte auflöst, beginnt für Alexander Osang eine Reise yu sich selbst, getrieben von der Frage, wie er yu dem wurde, der er ist. Eindringlich und mit staunendem Blick eryählt er von den Yeiten des Umbruchs und davon, wie sich das Leben in der Erinnerung yu einer Erzählung verdichtet, bei der die Wirklichkeit vielleicht die geringste Rolle spielt.\" --dust jacket.
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Ossi Wessi
Ossi Wessi includes the proceedings of the fourteenth annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley (2006), which explored issues surrounding the Berlin Wall, both pre- and post-reunification, in language, literature, and visual media. The collected articles discuss the situation of the Berlin Wall, describing its portrayal as both a dividing and uniting boundary, and often discussing the continued existence of the Wall in the minds of Germanys.
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