the battle between nbc and cbs to be the first to film a berlin wall
East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the barrier and escape into West Berlin.. ..…
East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the barrier and escape into West Berlin.. ..…
With Marshall Plan and all the encouragement of West German economic growth, something GDR could not keep up with, the addition of this sabotage by CIA severe blows to GDR in its formative years.. ..…
West German industries and banks moved into the East, bought up for next to nothing the industries that had employed 4 million workers — with a market mainly in the former socialist countries — and in no time created an army of unemployed and precarious workers. ... While there was a..…
When one reads the series of thoughtful anniversary articles of the moderate German left-wing press, for example the taz and Der Freitag, it is easy to see why this was so: the West Germans, when taking in the reality of East Germany, were at the same time discovering their own repudiated..…
Thirty years on from German reunification, GDP per individual in eastern Germany is still only 73.2% of what it is in the west. Despite a marginal narrowing of the gap there remains a significant difference in living conditions and suffering faced by the working class in the east and the..…
We negotiated intensively with (West German Chancellor) Helmut Kohl, Krenz, the Americans and Europe's leading figures. ..…
Signing of the 'Four-Power Agreement Soviets and East Germans recognize West Berlin's right to exist, and West grants de facto recognition to the East German regime... ..…
With new trading possibilities, Yaroslavl attracted colonies of Russian and foreign merchants (English, Dutch, and German). . ... Foreground: west entrance porch. Summer 1910. . Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky . . ..…
The tunnel was built by group of people who had escaped earlier from East Germany to West Berlin. They wanted to help friends family to flee to West, too, and days before it was finished, East German officials discovered and destroyed it BERLIN — underneath Berlin Wall opened..…