The Berlin Wall And Inner German Border 1945 1990

Author : Wieland Führ
Publisher : Michael Imhof
ISBN 13 : 9783865684141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Berlin Wall and Inner-German Border, 1945-1990 written by Wieland Führ and published by Michael Imhof. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The division of Germany between the two rival power blocs following the Second World War, and the establishment of two German states in 1949, resulted in the inner-German border and eventually the Berlin Wall. This book provides an introduction into the history, background and outward appearance of this interface between two competing military, political and economic systems. The constant exodus of its own citizens and the resulting threatened economic collapse of East Germany forced its leadership to hermetically seal off what it called the western border of the state on August 13th 1961. The sophisticated system of border technology with its protective strips, barbed wire fences, alarm signals, mines and walls was intended to prevent any escape from the German Democratic Republic, the workers' and peasants' state.

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846031939
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Berlin Wall and the Intra-German Border 1961-89 written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berlin Wall and the Inner-German Border (IGB) were built to halt the flow of refugees from East Germany to the West. From August 13, 1961, over 96 miles of crude fences and more sophisticated walls were erected around West Berlin. Border defenses ran 858 miles from the Baltic to the Czechoslovakian border, cutting villages in two, running through buildings, and intersecting roads and railways. Gordon L Rottman, who became familiar with both sides of the border while posted to Germany, examines the international situations that led to the creation of the Berlin Wall, discussing how the barrier systems functioned and their significance in the Cold War. Covering the erection of the barriers, how they evolved, defensive devices and the role of the checkpoints, this book also describes how ordinary people attempted to overcome these physical and political obstacles in their quest for freedom. Gordon Rottman writes,"In 1980 I found myself in a long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) company. After 2 years of training we were assigned as the V Corps LRRP company: our mission in the event of a Soviet invasion of West Germany was to insert our 21 five-man reconnaissance teams inside East Germany, establish "hides" overlooking autobahns and other highways, and report the movements of the second operational echelon, the follow-on forces behind the initial assault forces. This required us to know a great deal about what it was like inside East Germany. We began an intense study of the IGB, and in the process I was able to visit the border, learn its ways, and find out how to penetrate it."

Author : Patrick Major
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019924328X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Berlin Wall written by Patrick Major and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth.

Author : Oliver Boyn
Publisher : Ch. Links Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3861536137
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divided Berlin, 1945-1990 written by Oliver Boyn and published by Ch. Links Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four decades Berlin and her wall was the symbol of the Cold War. Oliver Boyn shows where the spies, politicians, propagandists and protestors operated.

Author : Astrid M. Eckert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190690054
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Germany and the Iron Curtain written by Astrid M. Eckert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of the Federal Republic and the German re-unification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. The book is the first environmental history of the Iron Curtain.

Author : K. Gerstenberger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230337759
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Berlin Wall written by K. Gerstenberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways

Author : Melvyn P. Leffler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801461293
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Uncertain Times written by Melvyn P. Leffler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Uncertain Times considers how policymakers react to dramatic developments on the world stage. Few expected the Berlin Wall to come down in November 1989; no one anticipated the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001. American foreign policy had to adjust quickly to an international arena that was completely transformed. Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro have assembled an illustrious roster of officials from the George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush administrations—Robert B. Zoellick, Paul Wolfowitz, Eric S. Edelman, Walter B. Slocombe, and Philip Zelikow. These policymakers describe how they went about making strategy for a world fraught with possibility and peril. They offer provocative reinterpretations of the economic strategy advanced by the George H. W. Bush administration, the bureaucratic clashes over policy toward the breakup of the USSR, the creation of the Defense Policy Guidance of 1992, the expansion of NATO, the writing of the National Security Strategy Statement of 2002, and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. A group of eminent scholars address these same topics. Bruce Cumings, John Mueller, Mary Elise Sarotte, Odd Arne Westad, and William C. Wohlforth probe the unstated assumptions, the cultural values, and the psychological makeup of the policymakers. They examine whether opportunities were seized and whether threats were magnified and distorted. They assess whether academicians and independent experts would have done a better job than the policymakers did. Together, policymakers and scholars impel us to rethink how our world has changed and how policy can be improved in the future.

Author : Edith Sheffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199314616
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burned Bridge written by Edith Sheffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations : Burned Bridge -- Insecurity : border mayhem -- Inequality : economic divides -- Kickoff : political skirmishing -- Shock : border closure and deportation -- Shift : everyday boundaries -- Surveillance : individual controls -- Home : life in the prohibited zone -- Fault line : life in the fortifications -- Disconnect : East-West relations -- Epilogue : new divides

Author : Hans-Hermann Hertle
Publisher : Ch. Links Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783861534631
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin Wall written by Hans-Hermann Hertle and published by Ch. Links Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 previously unpublished photographs document the building and development of the many check points, barbed wire barriers, and alarmed fences which formed the concrete wall around Berlin. This book tells dramatic tales of spectacular escapes and terrible deaths, and explains the history making events surrounding the building and fall of the Wall. Contemporary photographs are contrasted with photographs from the eighties to offer surprising insights into how the former death strip has changed since 1990. Relics of the wall in the current cityscape are prominently illustrated, including remnants of the Wall itself, expanded metal lattice fences, observation towers, barbed wire and concrete posts. Also included are statistics showing the numbers of refugees and victims of the Wall, a guide to the museums and memorials and a summary of the literature and cinema treatment of the Wall, along with a brief chronicle of its history.

Author : Hans-Hermann Hertle
Publisher : Ch. Links Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3861536323
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victims at the Berlin Wall, 1961-1989 written by Hans-Hermann Hertle and published by Ch. Links Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many deaths at the Berlin Wall have been publicized over the years in the media, the number, identity and fate of the victims still remain largely unknown. This handbook changes this by answering the following questions: How many people actually died at the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989? Who were these people? How did they die? How were their relatives and their friends treated after their deaths? What public and political reactions were triggered in the East and the West by these fatalities? What were the consequences for the border guards who pulled the trigger and the military and political leaders who gave them their orders after the East German border regime collapsed and the Wall fell? How have the victims been commemorated since their deaths? By documenting the lives and circumstances under which these men and women died at the Wall, these deaths are placed in a contemporary historical context. The authors, in addition to systematically researching the relevant archives and examining all the legal proceedings and Stasi documents, also conducted interviews with family members and contemporary witnesses.