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Oct 14, 2013 · The bridge on the Brun was, as it remains today, to the east of St Peter’s Church and is properly known as Burnley Bridge. The bridge over the Calder, at the bottom of Sandygate, was the original Calder Bridge and gave its name to this part of Burnley which was once known as Bridge End.
Dec 1, 2014 · The strict enforcement of this border reached a shocking watershed, not with the Berlin Wall's erection in 1961, but in 1952 with a campaign the GDR called “Action Vermin” to militarily fortify the border and cleanse the frontier of politically unreliable residents.
- Katherine Pence
- 2014
Jul 9, 2012 · Although the power elite in East Berlin enforced the deportations from border zone, imposed the Prohibited Zone and fortified the Iron Curtain, its stability and durability was due to processes of social and cultural appropriation ‘from below’.
- Arnd Bauerkämper
- 2012
During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Mar 31, 2018 · The Iron Curtain was a colloquial name for the boundary between Soviet-controlled Europe and the rest of the continent. The Soviet Red Army, after releasing the nations of Eastern Europe from Nazi oppression in 1945, worked to install governments that would adopt socialism and align with Moscow.
Jan 8, 2013 · Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain. By Edith Sheffer. Foreword by Peter Schneider. New York: Oxford University Press. 2011. Pp. xx1 + 357. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 978-0-19-973704-8.
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Feb 12, 2014 · Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light.
