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Berlin Wall

The construction of the Berlin Wall started in 1961, it consisted of a concrete barrier about 3 feet thick and barbed wire entanglements. There were also patrols that control people trying to go over the wall and were authorized to shoot anyone who do so.

The Wall was approximately 9 to 12 feet high and 28 miles long within the city, the surrounding Western sector was 70 miles long. The Wall divided West Berlin and the East Zone. Many families were separated and many of their houses were demolished in the construction.

The Berlin Wall’s fall was in 1989 all the families that were once separated from their loved ones celebrated that moment; however for many of them it came to late when they had lost everything.

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Primary Source:

 

Dulles, Eleanor Lansing. Berlin: The wall is not forever. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967

 

For further information visit Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

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Taken on April 17, 2007