30 years after the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany are still divided
- Written by Nathan Stoltzfus, Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies, Florida State University
The Berlin Wall in October 1988.360b/Shutterstock.comThirty years ago, on November 9, with a sense of momentous events palpable in Berlin’s famous air, East Germans began streaming through the Berlin Wall, two-stroke East German cars putt-putted past major symbols of capitalism like the KaDeWe department store, and it appeared that the...
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