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The Berlin Wall: How Cold War Ideology Became Physical Geography

# The Berlin Wall: How Cold War Ideology Became Physical Geography Between 1949 and 1961, roughly 2.7 million people left East Germany for the West. They walke…

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The Berlin Wall — Why East Germany Built It Overnight in 1961

In the early hours of Sunday, August 13, 1961, East German soldiers and workers began unrolling barbed wire across the streets of Berlin. By morning, a city h…

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The Berlin Wall — Why It Fell on November 9, 1989, and Not Any Other Day

## The Accidental Announcement East German Politburo spokesman Günter Schabowski appeared at a press conference on November 9, 1989. When asked when new trave…

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