Berlin Wall Memorial - The GDR Border Regime in Central Berlin

No other structure has had a greater impact on Berlin than the wall that divided the city from 1961 to 1989. Built to keep the SED in power and the East German population inside the country, it separated the people in the East and the West for 28 years. This succinct book tells the story of the Berlin Wall - how people tried to overcome it or learned to live with it, from the division of Berlin before the Wall was built to the completion of the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse.

About the author

Jahrgang 1962, promovierter Historiker, Leiter der Abteilung Forschung und Dokumentation in der Stiftung Berliner Mauer, von 2012 bis 2015 Mitarbeiter der Unabhängigen Historikerkommission zur Erforschung der Geschichte des BND; zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen, u.a. zur Geschichte der DDR und zur Berliner Mauer, zur Geschichte der Geheimdienste und des BND.

Summary

No other structure has had a greater impact on Berlin than the wall that divided the city from 1961 to 1989. Built to keep the SED in power and the East German population inside the country, it separated the people in the East and the West for 28 years. This succinct book tells the story of the Berlin Wall - how people tried to overcome it or learned to live with it, from the division of Berlin before the Wall was built to the completion of the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse.

Product details

• Authors: Gerhard Sälter, Gerhard (Dr.) Sälter
• Assisted by: Miriamne Fields (Editor), Miriamne Fields (Translation)
• Publisher: Ch. Links Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9783962890063
• ISBN: 978-3-96289-006-3
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 150 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 67 g
• Illustrations: 11 farbige und 22 s/w-Abbildungen und 2 Karten/Tabellen
• Series: Orte der Geschichte; Historic Places; Orte der Geschichte; Historic Places
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Englisch, DDR, Kalter Krieg, Berlin, Deutschland, Tunnel, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Flucht, Ostdeutschland, DDR, Westdeutschland, BRD bis 1990, Geschichte Deutschlands, Gedenkstätte, Willy Brandt, Grenze, Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen, Mauer, Ostberlin, West-Berlin, Westberlin, Ost-Berlin, Mauerbau, Teilung, Grenzregime, Fluchthilfe, Fluchthelfer, Todesopfer, Bernauer Straße, Günter Litfin, Berlinkrise, Manfred Fischer