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Nov 8, 2019 · November 08, 2019. • 6 min read. For nearly 30 years, Berlin was divided not just by ideology, but by a concrete barrier that snaked through the city, serving as an ugly symbol of the Cold War....
Nov 4, 2019 · It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East...
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'.
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.
Jan 30, 2020 · Jennifer Rosenberg. Updated on January 30, 2020. Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall (known as Berliner Mauer in German) was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. Its purpose was to keep disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West.
Nov 7, 2019 · With many East Berliners fleeing that situation, a physical barrier between the two sides of Berlin, known as the Berlin Wall ( die Berliner Mauer ), was built starting in August of 1961. It...
What Was The Berlin Wall? Patrolled by guards and dogs, illuminated by floodlights and fortified by barbed wire and watchtowers, the Berlin Wall divided the city for 28 years. Running through the city and around the outskirts, it stretched over 155 kilometres (96 miles).
