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Recollections of the black market after the end of the 2nd World War.
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"Erinnerungen an die Schwarzmarktzeit nach Beendigung des 2. Weltkrieges"
written by Horst Hommel
My father had fled captivity in Buxtehude near Hamburg and ... Read more..
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009, Tags: black market, Nachkriegszeit, Schwarzmarkt, TRANSLATION
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Loading ...13th August 1961. The day the Berlin Wall was built.
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"13. August 1961 - Tag des Mauerbaus in Berlin"
written by Rotraud Oelke and posted by Horst Hommel.
It was Sunday, a beautiful day during ... Read more..
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009, Tags: Berlin, Mauerbau, the wall, TRANSLATION
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The opening of the border 1989
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"Grenzöffnung 1989"
written by Peter Baudenbacher and posted by Horst Hommel.
November 1989 until January 1990
A Utopian dream come true
The border in GDR times.
Impermeable ... Read more..
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009, Tags: border, Mauerfall, the wall, TRANSLATION
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The painting of stained glass windows in English churches by German prisoners of war.
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"Die Glasmalerei Englischer Kirchenfenster von Deutschem Kriegsgefangenem"
written by Ernst Kramer and posted by Horst Hommel in March 2009.
After the invasion of the ... Read more..
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009, Tags: krieg, painting, TRANSLATION, war
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...17th June 1953
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"Der 17. Juni 1953"
written by Dieter Wilhelm and posted by Horst Hommel.
The large Frankfurter Allee in Berlin leads in an easterly direction away ... Read more..
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009, Tags: Berlin, DDR-Flucht, the wall, TRANSLATION
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