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Nov 8, 2019 · HISTORY & CULTURE. EXPLAINER. Why the Berlin Wall rose—and how it fell. The ugly symbol of the Cold War was built to keep East Germans from escaping to the West. A decades-long fight to flee...
Start of the construction (1961) Aerial footage of the wall as filmed by the CIA in 1961. East German Combat Groups of the Working Class close the border on 13 August 1961 in preparation for the Berlin Wall construction. East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961.
The 155-kilometer-long Berlin Wall, which cut through the middle of the city center, surrounded West Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin. In 1961, the SED began adding additional obstacles to the border, expanding the Wall into a complex multi ...
Feb 6, 2024 · Home European History. History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction. On August 13, 1961, the German communist government erected a fence between West and East Berlin. Known as the Berlin Wall, it became the symbol of the Cold War. Feb 6, 2024 • By Maria-Anita Ronchini, MA History & Jewish Studies, BA History.
The wall included a system of 302 guard towers and 55,000 landmines. A barbed-wire fence where the wall would be was installed overnight, surprising residents on both sides. The East German government claimed that it built the Berlin Wall to keep out Western ideas, spies, and fascists.
An East German observation tower seen through 23 January 1990. The Berlin Wall was not one wall, but two. Measuring 155 kilometres (96 miles) long and four metres (13 feet) tall, these walls were separated by a heavily guarded, mined corridor of land known as the 'death strip'.
Mar 4, 2010 · Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall—the Berlin Wall—to permanently close off access to the West....
