Word: bleibt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this holiday season the Wall seems to grow higher and stronger. In German, the future is often implied in the present tense. Berliners say. "Die Mauer bleibt" -the Wall remains, and will remain. Julius Cardinal Döpfner. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Munich, observed: "One can understand why countless people are afraid of Christmas Eve; because on that very evening all the misery of our divided families will break out. Then many will comprehend how high the Wall...
...feared. Already Moscow's famed Marshal Ivan Konev had moved two divisions of Russian troops into Berlin's outskirts, ready for the kind of action that the Soviets had employed to put down the abortive 1953 East German revolt. But the West Berliners were not intimidated. "Berlin bleibt frei, Berlin bleibt frei" (Berlin will remain free), chanted a crowd of 30,000 gathered a stone's throw from the Vopos on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate. Near by, an East German cop who got too close to a West Berlin throng was grabbed, hauled over...