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East Germany: A failed experiment in dictatorship | Germany | News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 07.10.2019
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Map showing East and West Berlin before 1990, East Side Gallery, Friedrichshain, east Berlin, Germany Stock Photo - Alamy
We Were Soldiers Too - Cold War Book Series - Cold War Era - Map of West and East Germany before 1989, the Fall of the Berlin Wall. #coldwar #coldwarera #germany #east #
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If the Berlin Wall was only 96 miles long, and Germany is far wider, why couldn't people just go around it to move from East to West Germany? - Quora
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