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Additional materials

The Wall in the media and on Internet

The European Commission site, Europa 1989-2009, offers the possibility to look back on events by country. It is available in English, French, German and Polish; with 4 headings: Discover, Celebrate, Remember, Listen.

France Culture has produced a special feature based on the making-of of a series on this subject, with historical references, a bibliography and Internet links.

"Berlin, comment ça va avec l'ombre du mur" - A new supplement of Télérama magazine is devoted to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some of the articles are presented on the website; the supplement went on sale on 9 September.

Ina has also produced a video file, as well as "Berlin Remix" in partnership with Dailymotion: on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ina and Dailymotion propose to "remix" Berlin and its history with you. On the basis of Ina's archives and your own images, produce a new presentation about the Wall, the city and life in Berlin.

DeutschlandRadio has created a specific site about the history of the Berlin Wall, in English and German.

The City of Berlin has created a portal about the Wall in English, French and German, that shows in particular the location of the Wall and its main control towers, and provides also a sizeable list of links to other materials.

The Cold War International History Project site (in English) presents the history of the Cold War by means of archive materials provided by all the concerned States, including new archives from the countries of the former "communist bloc".

The Toulouse Library has produced a map of the walls in the world. A certain number of on-line materials (videos, articles, radio programmes, etc.) are listed for each of these walls.

The Wall at the Bpi

Articles in the press

Berlin : le mur s'écroule, press folder produced by Public-Info (available in the Bpi's Press area).

Perspective Monde has also made a collection of articles with a summary about the building of the Berlin Wall and its destruction.

Digital materials

Historical abstracts - This bibliographical database contains, with a summary, documents about the history of the world, except North America, since 1450. Most of the documents are magazine articles in several languages that have been published since 1955.

Cairn - This portal gives access to the full content of 203 pluridisciplinary magazines on the humanities, history, psychology, literature and art. A search engine (by keywords, date, magazine title or discipline) makes it possible to search for a specific topic or document.

Press databases

Europresse - On this database you can look for and display articles published in French newspapers and magazines containing general and specialised information.
NEW TITLES AVAILABLE from 2009: the Bpi subscription to this service gives access to 16 press sources: the Agence France Presse (AFP Internet Journal in French, May 2001-), Challenges (February 2005-), La Croix (September 1995-), Droit de l'environnement (January 2002-), Les Echos (January 1991-), Environnement magazine (January 1996-), L'Express (January 1993-), Interavia (June 2005-), Libération (January 1995-), Le Monde (January 1987-), Le Monde diplomatique (January 1980-), Le Nouvel observateur (November 2003-), Le Parisien (May 1998-), Le Parisien économie (September 2005-), Le Point (January 1995-), Télérama (February 2006-). The database contains all the edited material in these papers and their regular supplements as well as computerised graphics (tables, diagrams).

PressDisplay - This database gives access to more than 700 newspapers and magazines published in 65 countries, in more than 40 languages, including 12 in a spoken version. The latest issues are available as soon as they are published. Each publication is archived for 60 days. The whole content of the publication is displayed and in its original format.