A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall
A photo exhibition and history of the Berlin Wall sponsored by the Caen Memorial and the Deutsches Historisches Museum of Berlin.
wall-berlin.org/gb/berlin.htm East German Propaganda: A 1962 Defense of the Berlin Wall
A 1962 brochure by the East German government offering various arguments defending the Berlin Wall as a necessity to the survival of the German Democratic Republic. It was published in English and aimed at foreign audiences.
calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/wall.htm A Photographic Documentation
A short photo essay documenting the condition of the Berlin Wall before it was torn down. Includes 39 black and white photos taken from different vantage points along the Berlin Wall's 156-kilometer length
kupfernagel.de/d/engl.html Newseum: The Berlin Wall
Interactive exhibit on news coverage of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its destruction in 1989.
newseum.org/berlinwall/index.htm CNN Interactive: Video Almanac - 1989
Video footage of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the celebrations afterwards. Footage is in Quicktime format.
207.25.71.25/resources/video.almanac/1989/i... CNN - Cold War - Berlin Wall: 1958-63
Documents the building of the Berlin Wall and the first attempts by East Germans to escape over it. Includes the full text of script, a multimedia recap of the Wall going up, and links to related issues.
cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/09/ Kennedy at the Berlin Wall
An exhibit by the Kennedy Presidential Library of President John F. Kennedy's famous Ich bin ein Berliner I am a Berliner speech. Includes images and recordings of the speech.
nara.gov/exhall/originals/kennedy.html The Fall of the Berlin Wall
A personal account of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Andreas Ramos describes his experiences of the 11th and 12th of Nov. 1989.
andreas.com/berlin.html BiW: The Berlin Wall
Provides background information on the Berlin Wall. Discusses the reasons the wall was erected, the construction process, its dimensions, its dismantling in 1989, and the creation of a Berlin Wall memorial in 1998.
userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html Berlin Wall
Facts, photographs, tourist information, and an archive of information about the the Berlin Wall. Discusses the history of the Wall, its fall and the events that have taken place in the ten years since it came down.
dailysoft.de/berlinwall/index.html History: Europe in Motion - the Berlin Wall - Artists for Freedom
A collection of artistic graffiti drawn on the Berlin Wall. Includes a discussion of the Cold War's impact on Europe and the future of Europe after the collapse of the Communism and the eastward expansion of European Union.
berlin1989.com/history.html East German Propaganda: Arguments Justifying the Berlin Wall 1961
A German propaganda pamphlet giving advice to East German propagandists on explaining the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/argu61.htm Chris De Witt's Berlin Wall Website
A regularly updated website about the Berlin Wall by an eyewitness to the event of 1989 and in the years since. Includes a gallery of Wall imagery, an essay on the fall of the Wall and its aftermath, and an archive of earlier photos and essays.
appropriatesoftware.com/BerlinWall/ CBC News - The Magazine - The Ghost of the Wall
A Canadian news report on the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath. Discusses the hard realities faced by the citizens of the former East Berlin and East Germany.
cbc.ca/national/magazine/berlin/index.html Berlin Wall
For the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Caen Memorial and the DHM of Berlin are holding an exhibition of photos on the Wall.
wall-berlin.org/