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The Berlin Wall, the Iron Curtain and their division of West and East have defined a large part of 20th century German history. In this lecture, Professor Edith Scheffer explores examples with which the Wall was as much a societal one as a physical one.
Edith Sheffer is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and an Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
The Berlin Wall, the Iron Curtain and their division of West and East have defined a large part of 20th century German history. In this lecture, Professor Edith Scheffer explores examples with which the Wall was as much a societal one as a physical one.
Edith Sheffer is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and an Assistant Professor at Stanford University.










