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The former capital of Hitler's Third Reich was divided after World War II. But the people of Berlin were still able to move around freely in the city. That is, until August 13, 1961.
In the eastern district, a significant stretch of the "hinterland" wall has been preserved
<p>While Berliners have incorporated the city's notorious wall into museums and public art, restoring the site of the Berliner Schloss of the Hohenzollerns and then the Palast der Republic of the East German government has been much more contentious. The Humboldt Forum has been criticized, but its design and reception exemplify the tensions inherent in democracy.</p>
Winston Churchill knew about the theatre of war. After all, he was a great political orator who led Britain through most of World War II. But his theatrics during a peacetime speech in the United States in 1946 would go down in history as one of his most famous and important performances, serving as the opening salvo of the Cold War. Seventy-five years ago this month, Churchill took to the stage at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and declared in a statement called 'Sinews of Peace' that an 'Iron Curtain’ was falling - a major divide separating the communist world from the west.