Word: tors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First involved were the thousands pouring through the massive Doric columns of the Brandenburger Tor on their way to homes in the Russian sector. An open truck carrying some dozen Soviet-sector police drove towards them up Unter den Linden-apparently dispatched with the vague intent of keeping order. The crowd jeered them; rocks followed jeers and the melée began...
...retreat and pelted every Soviet-licensed car in sight. Then reinforcements sped up and the crowd fell back; pistol shots cut the air and the first man fell, pitching forward on his face. In the minutes that followed, the crowd rolled back & forth repeatedly through the columns of the Tor, as its courage alternately flared and faltered. As a whole it was not a bold crowd: one bunch that halted a Soviet car beat a hasty retreat when the officer in it jumped out, stamped his foot and waved his fists...
...British with Their Cameras!" Unknown to the Russians, the people's attention by now had largely turned on an extraordinary drama at the Branden-burger Tor itself. A tall, dark youth had climbed the gate and was wrestling with the red flag on top. The crowd watched his progress with the hushed awe of an audience at an acrobatic show-even as pistol shots sporadically cracked out from the far side along Unter den Linden. Now the crowd cried: "Anbrennen!" (Burn it!). The first youth failed to get the flag down; two more tried, and the third finally sent...
Pleased as he was with the show, Direc tor Hayes thought it could have been improved on if only the schools were better...
Later, some 70,000 non-Communists stood before the old German Reichstag, listening to Socialist Leader Franz Neumann. Pointing to Berlin's historic city gate, on the border between the U.S. and the Soviet sectors, he cried: "There stands the Brandenburger Tor. One hundred years ago it was the border of Berlin. Now it is the border where freedom ends...