Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Satellite image of Berlin, with the Wall's location marked in yellow West and East Berlin borders overlaying a current road map The Berlin Wall ( German : Berliner Mauer , pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ⓘ ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German ...
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab ...
Manila – on 8 October 2015, a segment of the wall was installed at National Museum of the Philippines.The segment was a gift to the Philippines from the City of Berlin, but had remained unclaimed in Berlin for a decade before its installation which coincided with the 25th anniversary of German reunification.
After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, border stations between East Berlin (regarded as East Germany's capital by the German Democratic Republic but unrecognized by the Western Allies) and the sectors controlled by those three Western Allies were created. Although there were few crossings at first, more sites were built over the ...
Part of the remaining section of the Berlin Wall Memorial from Bernauer Straße. The memorial includes a 60-metre (200 ft) long section of the wall as it was when the Wall fell. [6] Seen from the west, a wall built from L-elements was lined by a sandy section, a lighted Kolonnenweg, a signal fence, and an inner wall. Finally a tower was built ...
The Berlin Wall fell 27 years ago Wednesday. The imposing wall that divided East and West Germany was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989. The wall, also known as the ...
The gallery is, for the most part, located on the western wall, which closed off the border area to East Berlin. This wall, facing inwards towards West Berlin, was much thicker and more fortified than its outward-facing counterpart. However, a small portion of the so-called "hinterland" wall has managed to survive, despite its weaker structure ...