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BMMHS Zoom talk Booked for October 2026
Berlin - Divided City
By Richard Gibbons
Richard’s talk will provide a detailed look at the Berlin Airlift, the disastrous superpower summits, the Berlin crises and the role of Berlin in the Cold War itself.
The four occupation sectors of Berlin. West Berlin is in light blue, dark blue, and purple, with several exclaves shown. Borough borders are as of 1987. Source Paasikivi. Wiki
West German police awaiting an eastern border controller at the opening of a new pedestrian border crossing. View into the vaults of Oberbaumbrücke, 21 December 1963. Source Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P086547, Wiki
Eastern refugees boarding an Avro York at Tempelhof Airport to fly into West Germany, 1953. Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P004762 Wiki
East German water cannon vehicle directed at western protesters in front of the Brandenburg Gate, August 1961. Source: Bundesarchiv Bild 173-1282 Wiki
East Berliners, just having passed the now-open eastern checkpoint Bornholmer Straße, passing Bösebrücke into the French sector of Berlin on 18 November 1989. Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1118-018 Wiki
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