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Why the Berlin Wall came tumbling down

                   
telegraph.co.uk: Twenty years after the opening of the borders between East and West Germany, Charles S. Maier recalls how a bloodless revolution came about. telegraph.co.uk
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07-Nov-2009
 
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All states have frontiers. East Germany, aka the German Democratic Republic, became a frontier that had a state. East Germans may have arrived in West Berlin hours before previously thought On August 13, 1961, after... [read full story]                    

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