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  2. Inner German border - Wikipedia

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    The better-known Berlin Wall was a physically separate, less elaborate, and much shorter border barrier surrounding West Berlin, more than 170 kilometres (110 mi) to the east of the inner German border. On 9 November 1989, the East German government announced the opening of the Berlin Wall and the inner German border.

  3. Checkpoint Charlie - Wikipedia

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    Along with the wall, the 830-mile (1336 km) zonal border became 3.5 miles (5.6 km) wide on its East German side in some parts of Germany with a tall steel-mesh fence running along a "death strip" bordered by mines, as well as channels of ploughed earth, to slow escapees and more easily reveal their footprints.

  4. Museums of the inner German border - Wikipedia

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    The German-German Museum Mödlareuth preserves the longest stretch of border wall still present on the former border, 700 metres (2,300 ft) long) and 3.3 metres (11 ft) long), along with two observation towers, border columns and warning signs, floodlights and other relics of the division of the village. The preserved border installations lie ...

  5. Berlin Wall - Wikipedia

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    Open The Wall (2014), featuring a dramatized story of the East-German border guard who was the first to let East Berliners cross the border to West Berlin on 9 November 1989. Bridge of Spies (2015), featuring a dramatized subplot about Frederic Pryor , in which an American economics graduate student visits his German girlfriend in East Berlin ...

  6. Fortifications of the inner German border - Wikipedia

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    The outer fences and walls were the most familiar and visible aspect of the system for Western visitors to the border zone, but they were merely the final obstacle for a would-be escapee from East Germany. The complexity of the border system increased steadily until it reached its full extent in the early 1980s.

  7. Checkpoint Charlie Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Freedom Memorial. The Checkpoint Charlie Museum (German: Das Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie) is a private museum in Berlin.It is named after the famous crossing point through the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world" (in the words of East German general Heinz Hoffmann).

  8. Category:Inner German border - Wikipedia

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    The Inner German border was the main border between East Germany ... Berlin Wall — the border between West Berlin and East Germany; Subcategories. This category has ...

  9. Berlin border crossings - Wikipedia

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    The Berlin border crossings were border crossings created as a result of the post-World War II division of Germany. Prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, travel between the Eastern and Western sectors of Berlin was completely uncontrolled, although restrictions were increasingly introduced by the Soviet and East German ...