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 For much of the 20th century, Berlin was at the center of conflicts that nearly tore the city and the world apart. Learn how Berlin, the heart of libertine Weimar culture, became the Nazis' capital and by 1945 a nearly bombed out city. See how recovery was overtaken by the city's Cold War division, Stalin's 1948 blockade of West Berlin, and a Western airlift that saved from starvation people who'd been America's enemies just three years before. Relive East Berliners' futile 1953 uprising against Communist rule, Khrushchev's construction of a wall that denied freedom to millions of East Germans, and the fear of both sides during the Cuban Missile Crisis that if war broke out, it might well start in Berlin. Finally, watch JFK's and Reagan's speeches making the Berlin Wall the symbol of Communist failure, the stunning day the Wall came down, and the renaissance of a reunified Berlin today. Throughout, learn of the courage of average Berliners, East and West, who struggled for decades to survive.
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