Hildegard is a female name derived from the Old High German hild ('war' or 'battle') and gard ('enclosure' or 'yard'), and means 'battle enclosure'. Variant...
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of Klaus Barbie. Ophuls was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Hildegard Wall and the director Max Ophüls. His family left Germany in 1933 following...
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The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating...
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Hildegard Johanna Maria Trabant (née Pohl; 12 June 1927 – 18 August 1964) was an East German woman who became the fiftieth known person to die at the...
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on the ruins of the abbey church that Hildegard founded; her relics have been in the church since 1641. The walls around its grounds with a cemetery still...
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an older man. It was at the Burgtheater that Ophüls met the actress Hilde Wall. They were married in 1926. Predicting the Nazi ascendancy, Ophüls, a Jew...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the...
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part: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Reagan called for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall, which had encircled West Berlin since...
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"Wall of Shame" (German: Schandmauer) is a phrase that is most commonly associated with the Berlin Wall. In this context, the phrase was coined by Willy...
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Hildegard Woodward (February 10, 1898 – December 1977) was the author and illustrator of many children's books, two of which were awarded a Caldecott...
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Accessed 30 Aug 2011. Brecht, Christine. Hildegard Trabant Archived 17 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Berlin Wall Memorial. Accessed 30 Aug 2011. Brecht...
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Checkpoint Charlie Museum (redirect from Berlin Wall 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...
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Segments of the Berlin Wall have been given to various institutions since the fall of the wall on November 9, 1989. Segments are occasionally moved, so...
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Scivias (category Hildegard of Bingen)
Scivias is an illustrated work by Hildegard von Bingen, completed in 1151 or 1152, describing 26 religious visions she experienced. It is the first of...
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Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (redirect from Berlin Wall Memorial)
The Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) commemorates the division of Berlin by the Berlin Wall and the deaths that occurred there. The...
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Hildegard Löwy (b.1922 - 4 March 1943) was a Jewish German office worker who became involved in anti-Nazi resistance. She was guillotined at Plötzensee...
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group Wipeout (ride) or Trabant, an amusement ride Hildegard Trabant (1927–1964), victim of the Berlin Wall Trabantenstadt, German for commuter town This disambiguation...
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demands they kill Hildegard before he will let them leave. The séance conjures the full ghost of Susan into the parlor, who accuses Hildegard of killing her...
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Checkpoint Charlie (category Berlin Wall)
(or "Checkpoint C") was the Western Allies' name for the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991)...
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The Berlin Wall (released as Berlin no Kabe (ベルリンの壁) in Japan) is a 1–2 player platform arcade video game released by Kaneko in 1991; two years after the...
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Berlin Crisis of 1961 (redirect from 1961 Berlin Wall)
the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Crisis began in June 1961 when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
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The Road to the Wall is a 1962 American short documentary film produced by Robert Saudek about the construction of the Berlin Wall. It aired as an episode...
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Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at University of St Andrews 26 June 2014 Hildegard of Bingen Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History and...
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Killing of Peter Fechter (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Fechter was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by East German border...
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Imperial Crypt (section West Wall)
Austria-Este, Duke of Modena.101 Daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and sister of Hildegard of Bavaria.129 95 Archduchess Maria Karoline Leopoldine Franziska Theresia...
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Dietwald Hans Außfelder as Klostervogt Curt Gerdes as Der Eggebauer Hildegard Wall as Zenza Stuart Josef Lutz as Bildschnitzer Ulei Ferdinand Martini as...
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Schießbefehl (section Berlin Wall)
last-known person to have been shot at the Wall was Chris Gueffroy, while the very last victim of the Wall was Winfried Freudenberg, dead by falling from...
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Chris Gueffroy (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall. Chris Gueffroy was born in Pasewalk, Bezirk Neubrandenburg (present-day...
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Konrad Schumann (category Berlin Wall)
Bereitschaftspolizist who escaped to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Born in Zschochau (now part of Jahnatal) during World War II, Schumann...
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Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959 (category Berlin Wall)
disappeared, and escalated into a major conflict over building the Berlin Wall in 1961. See Berlin Crisis of 1961. Between 1945 and 1950, over 1.5 million...
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