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Saturday, September 11, 2021

Death On The Berlin Wall


Castilian radio & idiot box broadcaster RTVE has released an interactive map to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the autumn of the Berlin Wall. The map investigates the 138 victims who were killed trying to cross the Wall during the Cold War.

During the 28 years of the Wall's beingness 121 men, viii women too ix children were killed piece trying to cross into West Berlin. Caidos en el Muro uses the Google Maps API to plot the locations where each of the 138 victims were killed piece trying to cross the edge betwixt East too West Germany.

You tin filter the results yesteryear date, yesteryear age, yesteryear gender activity too yesteryear type of death. If you lot guide a marking on the map you lot tin read brief details (in Spanish) close the life of the selected victim too how they were killed. If you lot click  on the victim's cite inwards the data window you lot tin read to a greater extent than close the private (in English) on the Berlin Wall Memorial website.