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East Berlin (German: Ost-Berlin; pronounced [ˈɔstbɛʁˌliːn] ⓘ) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it was the Soviet occupation sector of Berlin .
Nov 9, 2024 · East Berlin: Capital of the German Democratic Republic. East Berlin was the capital of East Germany until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and East and West Germany reunited less than a year later. As the capital of East Germany, East Berlin was always the “shop window” for socialism.
Nov 8, 2024 · On the evening of November 9, 1989, East Berlin was an unlikely scene of revolution. As news spread of a relaxation in travel restrictions, thousands gathered at the Berlin Wall, a forbidding structure that had separated East and West Germany for nearly three decades. A seemingly mundane press conference, and a botched announcement, led to an almost surreal moment — border guards, confused and overwhelmed, opened the gates. Within minutes, a flood of East and West Berliners crossed paths ...
Nov 8, 2024 · East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin. The Wall plugged the last gap in the border between east and west.
Nov 9, 2024 · To stop the exodus of its population, the East German government, with the full consent of the Soviets, erected the Berlin Wall, isolating West from East Berlin. West Berlin, then literally an island within the surrounding GDR, became the symbol of Western freedom.
East Berlin, eastern part of the city of Berlin that served as the capital of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) until the reunification of Germany in
Nov 1, 2019 · The History of East Germany As Told in 7 Buildings. In anticipation of 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a handful of architectural marvels tell the story of the side of the wall that...
The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ⓘ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded.
Mar 9, 2023 · The GDR has left its mark on the Berlin cityscape to this day. This walking tour takes you on a journey of discovery into the world of the former socialist workers' and farmers' state.
It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.
