In fact, anything and everything necessary to keep
West Berlin from collapsing.
West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher told a cheering crowd of 20,000 outside
West Berlin's City Hall that East Germany had begun poking holes in the Berlin Wall by creating new crossing points.
According to Taylor, about 2.5 million East Germans escaped to freedom in
West Berlin from 1949 to 1961.
This year, the medals will honor the first victim: Guenter Litfin, who was shot trying to swim across Berlin's Spree river over to
west Berlin on August 24, 1961.
West Berlin has for a long time been a favourite haunt of budget-savvy tourist groups.
This article will examine how existing discourses on juvenile delinquency affected the responses of security services, government agencies, and political elites to the emergence of immigrant and non-immigrant subcultures in
West Berlin from the mid 1940s to the early 1990s.
Khrushchev had been calling for negotiations over the status of
West Berlin, which he likened at various times as an ulcer or a bone stuck in his throat.
According to the Daily Mail, the then West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made the suggestion that
West Berlin, occupied by French, British and U.S.
Topics include differences between East and West German historiography on the origins of World War I, memories of the Nazi past, West German labor internationalism and the Cold War, the Cold War and the marketing of
West Berlin as a tourist destination, representations of the Berlin Wall in East German film, satirical treatments of the West German Bundeswehr (armed forces) after the 1960s, Olympic support as a German Cold War phenomenon, the influence of the Cold War on West German feature film imports in East Germany, post-wall German television and the Berlin Airlift of 1948-9, and East German science fiction and the GDR Ministry of Culture.
At that stage, the company was called Modern Plastic Techniques and moved to yet another facility in
West Berlin, N.J.