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RISE AND FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

On the morning of 13 August 1961, Berliners woke up as normal. But something was different. Before, the border that divided the city into East and West, Russian and Allied, communist and capitalist, had been almost invisible; now there was concrete and barbed wire.

Germany had been split since the end of World War II, with the eastern half falling under the control of the USSR, while the other half of

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