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| ARTICLES RELATED TO History of Berlin | | | |  History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - History of Berlin - Slavic East GermanyStarting in the 6th century Slavic peoples from the east settled in the vacated area between the Elbe and Oder rivers.
About 720 two Slavic tribes settled in the Berlin region. The Heveller (Slavic: Havolane) settled on the river Havel with their central settlement in Brennabor, which later has become the town of Brandenburg. Close to the river Spree in today's borough of Berlin Köpenick the Sprewanen (Slavic: Sprevjane) settled.
About 750 the Havolane founded Spandow (today's Spandau) on the river Havel. This seems to be the close ...
See also:History of Berlin, History of Berlin - Origin, History of Berlin - Slavic East Germany, History of Berlin - The Germans return, History of Berlin - Berlin and Cölln, History of Berlin - Mark Brandenburg, History of Berlin - Kingdom of Prussia, History of Berlin - German Empire, History of Berlin - Weimar Republic, History of Berlin - Third Reich, History of Berlin - Nazi plans for postwar Berlin, History of Berlin - The war comes to Berlin, History of Berlin - The divided city, History of Berlin - Blockade Airlift, History of Berlin - The June 17th Uprising, History of Berlin - Berlin Wall, History of Berlin - Student Movement, History of Berlin - Reunited, History of Berlin - Historical population Read more here: » History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - History of Berlin - Slavic East Germany |
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Volkshalle - Hitler and Hadrian's Pantheon Just as Augustus's house on the Palatine was connected to the temple of Apollo, so Hitler's place was to have been connected by a cryptoporticus to the Volkshalle, which filled the entire north side of the forum. This truly enormous building was, according to Albert Speer (Speer, Erinnerungen, 167), inspired by Hadrian's Pantheon, which Hitler visited privately on May 7, 1938. But Hitler's interest in and admiration for the Pantheon predated this visit, since his sketch of the Volkshalle dates from about 1925 (Giesler 325). Giesler records a ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin Wall - Construction of the Wall The impetus for the creation of the Berlin Wall came from East German leader Walter Ulbricht, who sought the approval of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev for its construction. Khrushchev agreed, but imposed strict conditions. Ulbricht's proposal for a second air blockade was refused, and the construction of a barrier was permitted only if it were composed at first of barbed wire. If the Allies challenged the barbed-wire barrier, the East Germans were to fall ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - West Berlin - Origins The Potsdam Agreement established the legal framework for the occupation of Germany in the wake of World War II. According to the agreement, Germany would be formally under the sovereignty of the four major wartime allies -- the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union -- until a German government acceptable to them all could be reconstituted. Germany would be divided into four sectors, each administered by one of the allies. Berlin, though surrounded by the Soviet sector, would be similiarly divided, with the western ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin Wall - Construction of the Wall The impetus for the creation of the Berlin Wall came from East German leader Walter Ulbricht, approved by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev but with conditions imposed. Ulbricht's proposal for a second air blockade was refused, and the construction of a barrier was permitted only if it were composed at first of barbed wire. If the Allies challenged the barbed-wire barrier, the East Germans were to fall ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin - Berlin today
Berlin - Tourist attractions.
Even though Berlin does have a number of impressive buildings from earlier centuries, the city's appearance today is mainly shaped by the key role it played in Germany's history in the 20th century. Each of the national governments which had their seat in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious construction programs, each with its own distinctive character. Berlin was devastated by bombi ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin Wall - The fall of the Wall On August 23, 1989, Hungary removed its border restrictions with Austria, and in September more than 13,000 East Germans escaped through Hungary. Mass demonstrations against the government in East Germany began in the autumn of 1989. The leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, resigned on October 18, 1989. He was briefly replaced by a successor, Egon Krenz, a few days later.
The new Krenz government decided to allow East Berliners to apply for visas to travel to West Germany. However, Günter Schabowski, the East German Minister of Pr ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin Wall - The Walls ears During the Wall's existence there were around 5,000 successful escapes into West Berlin; 192 people were killed trying to cross and around 200 were seriously injured. Early successful escapes involved people jumping the initial barbed wire or leaping out of apartment windows along the line. These quickly ended. Other successful escape attempts included 57 people who escaped through a 145 metre long (475 feet) tunnel dug by West Berliners, on October 3, 4 and 5, 1964; and two escapes made by sliding along aerial runways (one by two ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin Wall - How the Wall worked The Wall was over 155 km (96 miles) long. In June 1962 work started on a second parallel fence up to 91 meters (100 yards) further in, with houses in between the fences torn down and their inhabitants relocated. An empty No Man's Land was created between the two barriers, which became widely known as the "death strip". It was paved with raked gravel, making it easy to spot footprints left by escapees; it offered no cover; it was mined and booby-trapped with tripwires; and, most importantly, it of ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin - Basic Information Berlin ▶ (help·info), IPA: [bɛɐˈliːn], is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3.4 million residents, down from a peak of 4.5 million before World War II. From 1949 to 1990 it was divided into East Berlin and West Berlin.
Berlin is located in the north of Germany, built on sand of the rivers Spree and Havel between the plateaus of Barnim in the north and Teltow in ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin Wall - Celebrations On Christmas Day, December 25, 1989 Leonard Bernstein gave a concert in Berlin celebrating the end of the Wall, including Beethoven's 9th symphony (Ode to Joy) with the chorus' word "Joy" (Freude) changed to "Freedom" (Freiheit). Roger Waters performed the Pink Floyd concert The Wall in Potsdamer Platz on 21 July 1990, with guests including The Scorpions, Bryan Adams, and Van Morrison. Also, David Hasselhoff performed his song "Looking for Freedom", which was very popular in Germany at that time, standing on the Berlin wall. David Hasselhoff has later (probably not even jokingly) told reporters that he "helped ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Berlin Wall - Background See main article: History of Berlin
Germany's capital, Berlin, was captured by the Soviet army during the last months of World War II. Thereafter, Germany as a country was divided into four occupation "zones", each controlled by one of the four major Allied powers. As the capital, Berlin was also divided by the Allies into four sectors, although Berlin itself was completely surrounded on all sides by the Soviet sector of Germany. Thus the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France each had a portion of both the country ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Volkshalle - Possible architectural problems Although the Volkshalle was never built, critics claimed it might have severe architectural problems, such as acoustics that would (depending on the critic) either make it impossible to hear a speaker, or would magnify the speaker's voice so loud that it might cause deafness.
In an interview with James O'Donnell, Speer said that, during his time in Spandau Prison, he constantly reviewed such criticisms of his architecture, and eliminated (in his opinion) many of them. One problem, however, remained - Speer speculated that during cold ...
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| | | | History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - Ich bin ein Berliner - Background See main article: History of Berlin
Germany's capital, Berlin, was deep within the area controlled after World War II by the Soviet army. Initially governed jointly in four sectors controlled respectively by the United States, United Kingdom, France, and USSR, tensions of the Cold War escalated until the Soviet forces implemented the Berlin Blockade, which the Western allies relieved with the dramatic airlift.
Afterward, the sectors controlled by the NATO Allies became an effective exclave of West Germany, completely sur ...
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