When the Allies divided Germany into occupation zones in 1949, the boundary between the GDR’s Thuringia and the West’s Bavaria ran straight through tiny Mödlareuth. Incredibly, rather than move the border slightly, the GDR built a great …

2009年12月15日 · On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or...

Well over 100,000 citizens of the GDR tried to escape across the inner-German border or the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1988. More than 600 of them were shot and killed by GDR border guards or died in other ways during their escape attempt.

2024年12月9日 · In this study guide, we will cover how the GDR came into being, its political structure, economic realities, and what everyday life was like for those living in Germany behind the Iron Curtain.

On the eve of August 12, 1961, the East German communist government closed the German border, and on August 13, construction of the Berlin Wall began. Families and friends were separated as GDR authorities tore up roads and sealed the border with barbed wire fencing and concrete blocks.

Between 70,000 and 100,000 citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from all walks of life have come to central Leipzig today to protest against East Germany's governing communist regime....

2025年3月4日 · Meanwhile, the Soviet Union established a separate state in its zone in the east: the GDR - the German Democratic Republic. With the city of Berlin divided into east and west by the Berlin Wall, the GDR and the FRG played a central role in the history of the Cold War. Berlin (West), which was how the city was officially known in West Germany ...

2019年11月8日 · Since the early morning of August 13, 1961, it became known that GDR was separating East Berlin from West Berlin with barbed road blocks and walls.

2019年11月8日 · Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 miles long and was protected with barbed wire, attack dogs, and 55,000 landmines.

2024年11月26日 · The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed in 1961 that separated Soviet-controlled East Germany (the GDR) and West Germany (controlled by the United States, Britain, and France). The Wall stood at around four meters tall and 155 kilometres long and was heavily guarded by the “death strip” a piece of land which contained mines and, by 1989 ...