• Thumbnail for Rudolf Urban (Berlin Wall victim)
    who died as a result of injuries sustained while crossing the Berlin Wall. Rudolf Urban, a truck driver, lived with his wife Ilse in his birthplace at...
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  • Rudolf Urban is the name of the following persons: Rudolf Urban (soccer player) (born 1980), Slovak soccer player Rudolf Urban (Berlin Wall victim) (1914–1961)...
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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...
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    There were numerous deaths at the Berlin Wall, which stood as a barrier between West Berlin and East Berlin from 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989...
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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...
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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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    Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall. The...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Charité
    showpiece for East Bloc propaganda during the Cold War. Corpses of Berlin Wall victims were taken here for autopsies. In 1990, with the reunification of...
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  • Thumbnail for Wall of Shame
    "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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    Mauer 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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    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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    the war and urban renewal and still have coal-fired heating. The church of St. Joseph from 1909 has served as interim cathedral of Berlin from 2018. A...
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    Olga Segler (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    with other victims of the Berlin Wall, most of whom died on Bernauer Straße; these also included Ida Siekmann, Hans-Dieter Wesa, Rudolf Urban, Bernd Lünser...
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    Killing of Peter Fechter (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    at the Berlin Wall. Fechter was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by East German border guards while trying to cross over to West Berlin. Peter...
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  • 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 people...
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    Topography of Terror (category Berlin Wall)
    zones of occupation in Berlin ran along the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, so the street soon became a fortified boundary, and the Berlin Wall ran along the south...
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    Chris Gueffroy (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    deaths at the Berlin Wall Berlin Crisis of 1961 Baron, Udo. "Chris Gueffroy". Berlin Wall Memorial. NBC News Article, Victims of the Berlin Wall Never Forgotten...
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    Günter Litfin (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    tailor who became the second known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Litfin was the first victim to be killed by East German border troops, the first to...
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    Ida Siekmann (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    First Berlin Wall victim (English translation of) Message of the East Berlin People’s Police on the escape attempt of Ida Siekmann The Wall of Shame; August...
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    marks the point where the old road from Potsdam passed through the city wall of Berlin at the Potsdam Gate. Initially, the open area near the city gate was...
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    Republikflucht (category Berlin Wall)
    legally from the Soviet occupation zone and East Germany before the Berlin Wall was built on 13 August 1961, and the thousands who migrated illegally...
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    Winfried Freudenberg (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    East Germany to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall as he fell from an improvised gas balloon at high altitude over West Berlin. Freudenberg was born...
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  • Thumbnail for Checkpoint Charlie Museum
    Checkpoint Charlie) is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point through the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called...
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    Victim of the Mid-Market Squeeze, Closes After 12 Years". artnet News. 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2021-01-31. Hickley, Catherine (2022-01-28). "Berlin's 'hidden...
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  • Özüdoğru [de], victim killed during a series of xenophobic murders by the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) Enver Şimşek, victim killed...
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    Erna Kelm (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    Kelm was one of only eight women victims, and at the age of 53, was one of the oldest victims of the Berlin Wall. Erna Kelm was born on July 21, 1908...
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  • Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism (Berlin) Französische Kapelle [de] (Soest) Memorial to the Victims of National Socialist 'Euthanasia'...
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  • Thumbnail for Erich Honecker
    Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts of General Secretary of the Socialist...
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    Hildegard Trabant (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    Berlin Wall. Trabant was shot and killed by East German border guards during a crossing attempt, one of only eight women victims of the Berlin Wall,...
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