BERLIN WALL

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/19/2021
  

  How Empires Fall

  by Matt Wehmeier

  "Decisive political moments are rarely expected, and even more rarely planned. Governments change all the time. But every once in a while, empires fall."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/14/2021
  

  Jenny Erpenbeck Is Keeping Time

  German author Jenny Erpenbeck's work is an exercise in preserving the objects that place a person's memory in history, particularly her own childhood in East Germany. 

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• 5/16/2021
  

  The Rebuilt Berlin Palace Embodies the Tensions of the City's History and Future

  by Barney White-Spunner

  While Berliners have incorporated the city's notorious wall into museums and public art, restoring the site of the Berliner Schloss of the Hohenzollerns and then the Palast der Republic of the East German government has been much more contentious. The Humboldt Forum has been criticized, but its design and reception exemplify the tensions inherent in democracy.

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• SOURCE: Artnet News
  4/2/2020
  

  A 200-Foot Section of the Berlin Wall Has Been Torn Down to Make Way for Condos, Leaving Historians Appalled

  One of the largest remaining stretches of the inner wall was tucked quietly away in a suburb.

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• 12/22/19
  

  Amidst the Rubble: Hope Harrison on the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  by Paige Morse

  Historian Hope Harrison discusses how we should remember the Berlin Wall and why its history is so important.

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• 11/17/19
  

  The History Briefing on the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  by Andrew Fletcher

  The collaspe of the Berlin Wall had both historical as well as cultural significance, which we should remember on its anniversary.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/8/19
  

  The Battle Between NBC and CBS To Be the First To Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel Escape

  by Mike Conway

  In the summer of 1962, the two networks were at work on two separate, secret documentaries on tunnels being dug under the Berlin Wall.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 9, 2019
  

  ‘The day the wall came down’: How The Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall 30 years ago

  by Robert McCartney

  Thirty years ago, East German officials abruptly announced it would open its border, ending 28 years of separation between East and West Berlin. This story ran on the front page of The Washington Post the next morning.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 09, 2019
  

  Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, a power divide remains in Germany

  by Elena Souris

  Marginalized east-German perspectives could undermine democracy

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/1/19
  

  The Spirit That Brought Down the Berlin Wall Lives On

  by Robert Cohen

  Bloodless revolutions from Armenia to Lebanon are about ending the fatalism corrupt rule engenders.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/7/19
  

  Historian Hope Harrison Interviewed for article on German Reunification in The Atlantic

  The article, "What Would It Take to Unify Korea? Germany Offers Lessons, examines all that is still left to do to reunify Germany 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

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• SOURCE: Mashable
  11/6/19
  

  Live through incredible Berlin Wall escape stories with YouTube's VR history project

  The experimental film bridges the generational gap, transforming powerful archival photographs into immersive 360-degree virtual snapshots in time. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/7/19
  

  'The Gates in the Wall Stand Open Wide.' What Happened the Day the Berlin Wall Fell

  by Albinko Hasic

  The story of the Berlin Wall is one of division and repression, but also of the yearning for freedom — and the events that led up to its toppling are no exception.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10/27/19
  

  What the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall Means 30 Years Later

  by James Carroll

  As the 30th anniversary of the end of the Cold War approaches, it should be obvious that there’s been a refusal in the United States to reckon with a decades-long set of conflagrations in the Greater Middle East as the inevitable consequence of that first American invasion in 1990.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-13-18
  

  Germans Quietly Pass an Equinox of Unity, but the Walls Remain

  Roughly one generation lived with the wall. Roughly one generation has now lived without it. But in many ways it is still a tale of two countries.

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  1-25-18
  

  Amateur German historian finds likely stretch of Berlin Wall

  An amateur historian says he's discovered a lengthy stretch of the original Berlin Wall in a wooded area of the German capital.

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• 10-24-17
  

  Found at Last: A Real-Life East German Stasi Officer Who Sabotaged His Own Deadly Operation

  by Greg Mitchell

  But so far there’s only one.

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• 10-15-16
  

  How the Great Escapes Under the Berlin Wall Came to an End

  by Greg Mitchell

  Tunnel escapes stopped abruptly 52 years ago because of one sensationalized and misconstrued event.

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• SOURCE: WHNT
  6-29-16
  

  Colonel claims the Pershing II missile brought down the Berlin Wall

  "The Berlin Wall fell because of the success of the Pershing II."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11-10-15
  

  The man whose words brought down the Berlin Wall was far from a bumbling fool

  The lead role in the drama went to Günter Schabowski, a high-ranking East German apparatchik who recently died at the age of 86 – and whose answers at the briefing have become the stuff of legend.