Norman Gelb was born on November 9, 1929 in New York, New York. He attended Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and the University of Vienna. He went on to the United States Army from 1952 until 1954. He was with WOR-Radio in New York, a news editor from 1957-1960, and was a correspondent in Berlin for the Mutual Broadcasting System before and after the Berlin Wall was built. Norman Gelb also wrote Enemy in the Shadows, The British, and Dunkirk: The Complete Story of the First Step in the Defeat of Hitler. This author is qualified to write this book because he witnessed this event personally. He also used reliable resources such as the interviews of others who lived through the building of the Wall in The Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Wall starts by telling a little information about the Wall itself. How and when it was put up and how strict the security was on it. The book then jumps back in time to 1945 when Eisenhower was the president of the United States and World War II was coming to a close. From there on it goes chronologically to the time of John Kennedy's assassination. The book covers the whole history of the Wall from the beginning of the disputes between Khrushev and Kennedy in Vienna to after Kennedy and Khrushev were both were both gone from the scene, and a second wall was built to keep East Berliners from coming in contact with the border wall and to lower the number of escapees even more. The Berlin Wall also tells of how people from both sides feel after all of the conflict is over and "for Berliners the Wall is now, therefore, normal." (pg. 283).
This book was strictly on politics. It explains why a wall separated East Berlin from West Berlin. Refugees were leaving by the thousands to live in Democratic West Berlin and such a great loss of people threatened the communism of East Berlin. Therefore the Wall was put up to separate the two and restrict traveling between them.
The Berlin Wall was a symbol for the Cold War Era. ... I would have waited to the fall of the Berlin Wall. ... He insisted on building the Berlin Wall. ... At least a hundred people died on the wall of the Berlin Wall. ... There are still reminders of the Berlin Wall. ...
My topic is "The Fall of The Berlin Wall" , Communism and politics. The Berlin wall was built in 1961. ... The Berlin wall was constructed as a heavily forted barrier that is about 26 miles long. Berlin was a focal point for changes. the fall of the Berlin wall which will always be remember as the end of "The Cold War". this made west available to the middle east resulting in widespread chaos. ... There where only 2 opening in the Berlin wall. ...
There were many dramatic and interesting escapes to the west after the Berlin wall went up. ... The wall was taken down in 1989, when Mikhal Gorbachev officially declared the end of the Berlin Wall. ... One major reason for the Soviets to build the Berlin Wall was the economic distress they suffered. ... The first concrete square blocks were used on August 15, 1961, and within the next months, the first generation of the Berlin Wall was build up: a wall consisting of concrete and square blocks. ... Families finally reunited as the wall was taken down and the Berlin Wall came to an end ...
Only 420 feet of the Berlin Wall remain mainly in the Bernauer Strasse in the city's Wedding district as a tourist attraction. ... It was made to stop theflight of GDR citizens, espically skilled workers, to West Berlin. ... Each day they make the trip to West Berlin. ... The word wall was never spoken. ... West Berlin radio issued the first panicky news reports of the commotion in the streets. ...
Even though the wall itself was not built until 1961, the Berlin Wall was the enduring symbol of that "Iron Curtain." ... The Berlin Wall was erected for one main reason: to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin. ... As a result, at 2:00 A.M. on August 13th, the Soviet Union began the construction of the Berlin Wall (Berlin). After the Berlin Wall's erection, living with it was not an easy task. ... At that moment it meant the end of the Berlin Wall. ...
In order to prevent the migration of individuals, on 13 August 1961 the city of Berlin was segregated in two by a wall built under the orders of the GDR leader, Ulbricht ("A World Divided"). ... The most heavily fortified section of the wall included electric fences, watchtowers, and automatic guns and a less-fortified wall encircled West Berlin completely, keeping all East Germans out of West Berlin" (Sara Ann McGill par 4). ... As the conflicts of the Cold War were intensifying in Europe, the Berlin Wall became the symbol of two opposing ideologies; capitalism in the West and...
The Berlin Wall, for twenty-eight years, separated friends, families, and a nation. ... This idea, thought up by some unknown person, became the infamous Berlin Wall. ... The Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961. ... The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. ... Soon after the free passage was allowed the Berlin Wall was taken down. ...
On August 13, 1961 the Berlin Wall was built and devided the city of Berlin for more than 28 years. ... This idea, thought up by some unknown person, became the infamous Berlin Wall. ... The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. ... When the Wall was being built, the West began to protests and give speeches that did not allow the complete isolation of East Berlin. ... Not long after the free passage was allowed the Berlin Wall was taken down. ...
For example, "the one wall becomes two walls, the speaker's wall a philosophically differentiated structure, the neighbor's wall a mere landmark of past clichés- (Kearns). ... Kennedy when he inspected the Berlin Wall. "As he inspected the Berlin Wall he quoted the poem's first line: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."" ... Kennedy's use of the first line, he implied that not everyone loves a wall, as many detested the Berlin Wall. The people in East Berlin constantly tried to escape through the wall into democratic West Berlin, but most died in t...