Berlin Wall

[Chesterton]

I was watching a news show last week and they were talking about how President Obama declined Germany's invitation to go there for the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of the people on this show said that some young Germans today have actually been taught that America built the Berlin Wall. I did some web surfing on this trying to find something about it but couldn't find anything. The idea sounds completely preposterous, but it's so preposterous I can't imagine someone would just throw that out there unless there was maybe some kernel of truth in it. Does anyone know of anything like this? (And I'm sorry I can't remember the name of the person who who said this, but I did hear it.)

 

[Beckyy25]

I have never heard a German claiming that. Here is a little bit of what I found about this on Wikipedia:

John F. Kennedy had acknowledged in a speech on July 25th., 1961,[35] that the United States could only hope to defend West Berliners and West Germans; to attempt to stand up for East Germans would result only in an embarrassing downfall. Accordingly, the administration made polite protests at length via the usual channels, but without fervour, even though it was a violation of the postwar Potsdam Agreements, which gave the United Kingdom, France and the United States a say over the administration of the whole of Berlin. Indeed, a few months after the barbed wire was erected, the U.S. government informed the Soviet government that it accepted the Wall as "a fact of international life" and would not challenge it by force.

Source

 

[schwarzes_schaf]

Hi,

No one here in Germany is teaching or claiming that the USA built that wall. First time i hear that. If someone actually would have done that, it would have been on the news here. Especially these days.

 

[127.0.0.1]

Hier, ich hat diese sehr interessant Artikel gelesen, über der Berlin Wand. Diese Artikel sagt das der östlich Deutschen hat wann der Berlin Wand fällen, viel verloren.

East Germans lost much in 1989

For many in the GDR, the fall of the Berlin Wall and unification meant the loss of jobs, homes, security and equality



Ist, richtig?

 

[schwarzes_schaf]

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[Beckyy25]

Du hast weise gesprochen!
Gefällt mir wie du darüber denkst Maria. Du bist realistisch und optimistisch. Das ist die richtige Einstellung, um in dieser Welt etwas zu erreichen!

 

[ChristianLDS]

Die Berliner Mauer wurde auf Befehl Chrutschows von dem Politbüro unter Leitung Ulbrichts erschaffen, um die Flucht der DDR Bürger zu verhindern. Am 12./13. August 1961 wurde damit begonnen.

 

[Kioma]

damals befand man sich im "kalten Krieg"
um zu verhindern das sich die gemüter erhitzen wurde die Mauer akzeptiert
1989 wurde sie eingerissen
und ja es war mit Verlust
Ideale lösten sich ins nichts auf
Arbeitslosogkeit nahm zu

So glücklich alle waren das sie weg war
man kann nicht von heute auf morgen erwarten
das alles gleich super läuft
tuts ja bis heute noch nicht
immer noch wenn vielleicht nicht mehr so stark
Ossis und Wessis Leider
sind wir doch einfach alle nur Menschen
auf dem ganzen Globus