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A City Divided: The Berlin Wall | Sleep History with Rain Sounds
A slow, detailed history of the Berlin Wall, narrated quietly over rain sounds to help you fall asleep. Nearly two hours of calm bedtime history — no music, no sudden noises.
Tonight we spend some time in a city that was cut in half. For twenty-eight years, two months and twenty-seven days, Berlin was divided by concrete, and this episode is about what that actually felt like on both sides of it.
We begin in the rubble of 1945 and the four-power carve-up of the city, the Berlin Airlift, and the open border years when tens of thousands simply walked west. Then the barbed wire of August 1961…
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