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  German town builds 13ft wall to separate refugees from residents | The Independent

  The Independent

  A suburban town in Germany is building a 13ft-high stone wall to separate residents from refugees living at a nearby migrant accomodation …

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  When Bruce Springsteen Helped Destroy the Berlin Wall

  motherjones.com - Greg Mitchell

  The fall of the Berlin Wall has been attributed to lots of things, from Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms and Ronald Reagan's famous plea to the ineptitude …

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  The Tunnels: JFK, the cold war and the Berlin Wall

  The Guardian - Stuart Miller

  In his new book, journalist Greg Mitchell has excavated a story of daring escapes and media manipulation which speaks directly to the era of Donald Trump

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  The role of Literature in bringing about the Fall of the Berlin Wall (N. Magugliani)

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  Historical Framework Germany, 1945. After the Second World War, the Allies officially divided Germany into four military occupation zones at the …

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  ‘The Power of the Powerless’: Past Struggles and their Current Lessons (Edward Lucas)

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  [What follows is a lightly amended version of an unscripted talk given by Mr. Lucas at the Symposium on 29 November 2014] I want to say at the …

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  Under attack

  The Economist

  IN A sense, this is a golden age for free speech. Your smartphone can call up newspapers from the other side of world in seconds. More than a billion …