Konrad Adenauer was a prominent German statesman of the time- he was Chancellor ( equivalent to President) of West Germany. I believe one Theodor Heuss was the Burgomeister ( City-master- we would say Mayor) of Berlin during the famous Berlin crisis early in the Kennedy adminstration. Herr Heuss is known to many as the namesake of a German Coast Guard cutter of the rescue flotilla type- I used to see ads for the ship model all over the magazines and in hobby shops. I assume Heuss was a Naval officer- I was wrong. He had the(Conn) of the ship of state- in Berlin. In Nazi times the title Gauleiter- lit. County Leader or executive would be the title- Joseph Goebbels was Gauleiter of Berlin for much of his career- sharing hats with his better known task of Propaganda Minister.
because the wall was in the city Berlin
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin was the city divided by the Berlin Wall.
Berlin Wall
They called the Berlin Wall "The Wall of Shame."
The Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was built in Germany in August of 1961. The Berlin Wall was built to separate East Germany and East Berlin from West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was destroyed in 1990 which allowed for unification of West and East Berlin.
The Berlin Wall surrounded West Berlin. Therefore... Inside the Berlin Wall: West Berlin Outside the Berlin Wall: The two closest cities were Potsdam to the west, and East Berlin to the east.
The fall of the Berlin wall -APEX
The Berlin wall fell in 1989 and the U.S. President at the time was Ronald Reagan.
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At the time of the Berlin wall it was a bid for freedom from the communist-held East Berlin that drove many to attempt to cross the wall.. finally when the wall was pulled down by the people of West Berlin, the unification of Germany began