Monday, November 10, 2014
9 Interesting Facts of the Berlin Wall - Berlin - November 9 is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Icons roadblock for those who want to escape from East Germany, which was then under the communist regime, to West Germany in 1961-1989. Simultaneously symbolizing the peak of the Cold War tensions at the time.
German society around the world also participated celebrate this historic day. According to information from the German embassy in London, German artist imitation Berlin Wall meniiptakan using white balloons. There are around 7,000 pieces were installed along 15 km.
In commemoration, the following nine interesting facts that you should know related to the Berlin Wall.
1. An accident triggered the collapse of the Berlin Wall: 'flood' of man, both from East Germany and West Germany. They gathered after the East German Politburo member Guenther Schabowski on November 9, 1989, erroneously announced that East German society were immediately allowed to cross into West Germany.
2. According to History.com, the world saw the Berlin Wall as concrete with 'traps' along the 146 meters. Surrounded by watchtowers, trenches, paths for a guard dog, spotlights and machine guns, assault rifles as well.
3. After the Berlin Wall collapsed, cuilannya spread throughout Dinia. One of them is ditoilet man a casino in Las Vegas. Precisely at the Main Street Station Casino, Brewery and Hotel, Las Vegas.
Also there in the Vatican Gardens, Vatican City. Precisely in a graceful garden that becomes a meditation Pope. That said, the wall was a donation from the director of Ferrari in 1994. He won the auction in Monte Carlo in 1990.
If you do not have time to travel to Italy or Vegas to see part of the wall. You can 'peek' through eBay at a cost of US $ 10. Then you might consider buying a building structure weighing 8,000 pounds were auctioned $ 23,500 at auction Atlanta.
4. A mass exodus of East Germans to West Germany began about 15 years before the Berlin Wall was established in 1961. According to the website the Berlin Wall Memorial, East Germany lost one-sixth of its population as a result of the exodus.
5. The link between the Berlin Wall and several US presidents. One was President Kennedy who visited in the summer of 1963, shortly before his assassination in November. He said in a speech, that Berlin could help the world understand the split between Communist and non-Communist.
In 1987, Ronald Reagan challenged the Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down that wall.
When Clinton visited in 1994, he expressed this in front of the local community. "You have proven that there is no wall that forever menghalani to freedom," he said.
Related to the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, President Barack Obama said the incident was the beginning of the unification of two German ideology separated. Also the forerunner of the progress of the nation,
"Like many Americans, I will never forget the scene of East Berlin residents take to the streets, pushing past the guards and destroy the wall that so long had separated them from family and friends and the free world," he said.
6. The official reunification of West and East Germany has not occurred until October 3, 1990, nearly a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
7. Before the Berlin Wall fell, a Bruce Springsteen concert in July 1988 in East Berlin conducted. The event was touted as one of the causes of the collapse of the perimeter wall, according to the CBC.
"I came to play rock 'n' roll in front of you all, in the hope that one day all the barriers (the Berlin Wall) will be torn down," said the man who was familiarly called The Boss was in German.
8. Conductor Leonard Bernstein has also been doing a series of concerts on both sides of the Berlin Wall, a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. The international orchestra Bernstein including musicians from four countries that have occupied Berlin after World War II: the United States, Soviet Union, France and the United Kingdom.
Bernstein led the game Beethoven, 9th Symphony "Ode to Joy '. Then it is composed into "Ode to Freedom."
9. Some parts of the wall was also famous in the world. One is Checkpoint Charlie, known as Checkpoint C, which is the nickname of the Western Allies.
Also, the Brandenburg Gate is an arch former 18th-century gate that marks the beginning of the road leading to the city of Berlin Brandenburg.
Lastly, quoted by the BBC, the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall reportedly not completed until 1992.