1945-1990

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1945-1990

The fall of the Berlin Wall

November 10, 1989
2004
Offers a brief overview of the events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the impact its demolition had on world history and society.

The Berlin Wall

how it rose and why it fell
1992
A history of the much hated wall that for nearly thirty years divided Berlin and created two separate countries.

After the Reich

the brutal history of the Allied occupation
2009
Presents a history of the occupation and subsequent division of Germany after the defeat of Hitler, a period in which over two million Germans lost their lives through starvation and the violent revenge killings and imprisonments inflicted upon them by the victors.

The fall of the Berlin Wall

the Cold War ends
2006
Provides an account of the Cold War, focusing on the construction and destruction of the Berlin Wall, which became a symbol of the conflict.

Battleground Berlin

CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
1997
Povides an insider's account of espionage maneuvers in Berlin between America's CIA and Russia's KGB from 1945 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

The tin drum

1990
Contemporary German novel, the subject of much controversy when it was first published in 1959, focuses on the years of Nazi control in Germany as seen through the eyes of an intelligent dwarf, masquerading as a retarded lunatic.

Second fiddle

2011
Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three eighth-grade girls living on an American military base with their families in Berlin try to save a Russian soldier, who has been beaten and left for dead, by smuggling him to Paris, where they are going to perform in a music competition.

The tin drum

2010
Contemporary German novel, the subject of much controversy when it was first published in 1959, focuses on the years of Nazi control in Germany as seen through the eyes of an intelligent dwarf, masquerading as a retarded lunatic.

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