'Experience the history and fall of the Berlin Wall visualised in videos and images. Historical archive footage, contemporary witnesses and experts are reporting.'
'Nobody had a mobile phone or social media to mobilise supporters back in 1989. But East Germans fed up with communism poured into the streets of Leipzig, despite extraordinary restrictions on their personal freedom.'
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An interactive timeline of the Berlin Wall. Click on the dates for films of major events, interviews from the time, plus locations on a city map.
'On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy delivers a speech that electrifies a crowd gathered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The crowd roars with approval upon hearing the President's dramatic pronouncement, "Ich bin ein Berliner".'
'World events often move fast, but it is hard to match the pace and power of change in 1989. It culminated in one of the most famous scenes in recent history - the fall of the Berlin Wall.'
Harvey Black: 'During my time in Berlin in the 80’s, I was one member of a small army intelligence unit that had the task of monitoring Soviet and East German activity in the Eastern Sector of Berlin. In February 2012, I returned to Berlin again, after a gap of 25 years; I would like to share with you some of my experiences.'
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Kent College History's insight:
'On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin.'
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'Experience the history and fall of the Berlin Wall visualised in videos and images. Historical archive footage, contemporary witnesses and experts are reporting.'