Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power - Patrick Major - Google Êíèãè

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Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional,…