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Stone & Wire
How a wall became a border, then a symbol, then a memory.
12 lectures6 hrs1961 — 1989
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How one event spilled into the next
1945
A city split four ways
Occupation zones harden into competing governments.
1961
The wall rises overnight
A buffer zone of concrete stops the bleed of people westward.
1989
The wall falls, the bloc follows
One breach in Berlin cascades through every satellite state.
Today
New walls, old logic
Border barriers worldwide still borrow the Berlin playbook.
Sources · further reading
Where this comes from
- Frederick Taylor, The Berlin Wall: A World Divided (2006)
- Mary Elise Sarotte, The Collapse (2014)
Dates marked by tradition or legend are given as approximate.
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