Am . [laughter] this Tara Westover and if i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover you need to get out of the hole that youve been living in for a while. Because her book has just celebrated i think the 100th week, consecutive week on the New York Times best seller list. I think number one. [applause] thank you. Ahead of Michelle Malcolm or down there. Thanks. But thats very cool. And im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative that and thats why youre so interested and youre still here on the last lecture on the second day, but i thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping. It starts in idaho and actually, to me its like such a beautiful setting. There must be a lot of beautiful memories that you have with that. Yeah, i mean, it was a really Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on and i still have really fond memories of being on that mountain and playing on that mountain. I think its an incredible its, you know, the kids
Today, we will be looking at cold war berlin. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. Between the victors. Thats the united states, france, United Kingdom and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries, the west. And that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone of berlin. This starts the division of germany and the division of berlin after the war. That division became concrete erectiondirection of the berlin wall in 1961. The wall was put up by east germans ostensibly to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, by the soviets, hundreds of thousands of people in the east had been fleeing to the west. These numbers became larger and larger. It was a terrible drain of intelligence and of skills in the
Lee. [applause] hello there, guess who i am. This is Tara Westover and i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover, you need to get out of the hole that you have been living in. Because her book is just celebrated the 100 week, consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list. Number one. [applause] [cheering] ahead of michelle malcolm, down there. That is very cool. Thank you. Im assuming a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats where your still here on the last lecture of the second day. I thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping and the starts in idaho and to me it is such a beautiful setting, there must be a lot of beautiful memories that you still have. It was a reallyy beautiful mountains that i grew up on and i still have fond memories of being on the mount and playing on the mountain. Some people like to plane playground, we had an entire farm in a huge space and a lot of wonderful things that can happen on a
Berlin. Our guide is lead cure art alexis albion who explains, and shows us artifacts used by the east germans to spy on visitors and control their own citizens. Hello, im dr. Alexis albion and im a cure art here at the International Spy museum in washington, d. C. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligencerelated art facts in the world. And today were going to be looking at cold war berlin. Now, after world war ii ended, germany was divided between the victors. Thats the united states, france, United Kingdom and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries the west. And that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone of berlin. And this is the start of the division of germany and the division of berlin after the war. Now that division became concrete with t
Im alexis, i am a curator historian at the International Spy museum. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. The united states, france, United Kingdom and soviet union. Soviet union again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone. This starts the division of germany and berlin. That became concrete with the direction of the berlin wall with the berlin wall. The wall was put up by east germans of stents of late to keep people out. And with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, hundreds of thousands of people in the east had been fleeing to the west. These numbers became larger and larger. It was a terrible drain of intelligence and skills in the east. The east germans called what we called the berlin wall the antifascist fork. It was to keep out the fascist, to keep out the west. It did keep millions of these ge