35th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall
Published December 12, 2024, 6:07 a.m.
The division of Berlin was the result of Germany’s defeat in World War II, with the country divided into four zones of occupation, the West under the United States, Britain and France, l ‘Is under the Soviet Union. To keep citizens in the East, the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 without prior warning – and it would take almost three decades to see it fall. Journalist Jennifer Scherer is in Berlin as part of a research trip organized by the German Federal Foreign Office in cooperation with the National Press Club of Australia.
