When Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

After that, he was closely monitored by the government and narrowly escaped the country at 18 years old — just before the Berlin Wall was built. “You couldn’t trust anybody and you almost ...

The exodus of refugees from East to West Berlin reached 1,500 per day before the Berlin Wall was put up. ↗ Originally broadcast 31 July 1961.

The Gorizia Wall was erected in 1947 – 14 years before the Berlin Wall was built – and stood for 57 years, surviving the end of the Cold War and the break-up of Yugoslavia until it was finally ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... On 1 May 1960, just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris ...

Just before midnight, the Soviets cut power to ... by East Berliners into the West and begin construction of a Berlin Wall dividing the two parts of the city. April 16: Clay dies.