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- Ich bin ein Berliner!
- Here shows Kennedy use of a German phrase while standing before the Berlin Wall. It was great, his words of thought for him to declare himself a symbolic citizen of Berlin.
- - JFK
- The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic. Which started on August 13, 1961. The Berlin Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin
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- I just wish we could leave, but if we do that they'll KILL US!
- The Berlin Wall was not one, but two! Measuring 155 kilometers and four meters tall. It was under the constant surveillance of armed East German border guards who was authorized to shoot anyone who attempted to escape into West Berlin.
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- At midnight, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders!
- On November 9, 1989 as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesmen for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a changed in the city's relations with the West!
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- More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in a celebration. People used hammers and picks to knock away chucks of the wall. While bulldozers and more pulled down section after section. Soon as the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945. Some people call it the greatest street party in the history of the world.
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- People wanted to leave because there wasn't a lot of money and good basically original food going around. 5000 people tried to escape with a death toll of 600.
- Feels so good to be able to leave finally!!
- The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification!
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- Even though most thought of the Berlin Wall as a bad thing for the most part. But the wall sepearated East Berlin and West Berlin. In many ways it the perfect symbol of the Iron Curtain that seperated the democratic western countries and the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War.
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