East Berlin

Alarmed by what appeared to be a great number of East Germans crossing the border daily this was before the building of the Berlin Wall, officers of the GDR conducted a study in 1956 and 1957 and found that each day, on average, some twenty-six thousand East Berlin youths attended movies and dances at the West Berlin “border theaters.”

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West Berlin theaters showing Hollywood movies and playing jazz and rock lined the border with East Berlin.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The uprising was crushed on June 17 when Soviet tanks rolled into the center of East Berlin and East German troops opened fire on stone-throwing demonstrators.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

In some theaters, East Berlin teenagers made up 90 percent to 100 percent of the customers.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Demonstrators in East Berlin tore down the Soviet flag from the Brandenburg Gate, while in other cities prison inmates were freed and members of the secret police were beaten on the streets.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

“Saviors of the culture of the Christian West” in striped socks and half-long pants part of the early rockabilly style, as the Junge Welt put it, had filled the East Berlin streets.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

I think, Wow, you know that wall went down in East Berlin.

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There's a lot of rubble at Bab Al Azizia -- the US bombed the compound in April 1986 in response to the terrorist bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, which killed two US servicemen and was credited to Gaddafi based on telex intercepts in which Libyan agents in Tripoli offered congratulations to comrades at the Libyan embassy in East Berlin for a job well done.

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There's a lot of rubble at Bab Al Azizia -- the US bombed the compound in April 1986 in response to the terrorist bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, which killed two US servicemen and was credited to Gaddafi based on telex intercepts in which Libyan agents in Tripoli offered congratulations to comrades at the Libyan embassy in East Berlin for a job well done.

Michael Bronner: Civil War (Hold the Mustard...) Michael Bronner 2011

I think, Wow, you know that wall went down in East Berlin.

Mike Ragogna: Chatting with Rickie Lee Jones and NRBQ's Terry Adams, Plus Miss Derringer's New Video and Hot Water Music's New Single Mike Ragogna 2011