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20 Years On, a Street Recalls the Berlin Wall

By William BostonNov 6th 2009 – 10:28AM

BERLIN (Nov. 6) -- Astrid Kaiser still trembles when she remembers being frisked as a child by Red Army guards at the fortified border on Bernauer Strasse, where communist East Germany first began erecting the Berlin Wall on Aug. 13, 1961. "They even searched my doll carriage," says Kaiser, now 58. "I still feel uneasy...

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  • 10/03/10 Eros und Stasi Source: we make money not art The exhibition presents around 100 works by photographers as Sibylle Bergemann, Evelyn Richter, Ulrich Wüst, Ute Mahler, Will McBride, Helga Paris and Roger Melis.

Background on EastGermany

The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR), informally known as East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland), was a socialist state established by the USSR in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city.

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