How the Wall was built

'Berlin was an anomaly and the Soviets were eager to incorporate the city into their German satellite state'


Berlin 25: The road to unification

The prospect of a united Germany faced huge hostility but became a reality just 11 months after the Berlin Wall fell



1989’s other revolutions

The Berlin Wall’s fall was a death knell for a Soviet bloc in which the first fissures had appeared elsewhere




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