The Berlin Wall was an imposing figure in the era that had taken nearly three decades dividing between East and West Berlin. It was built on August 13, 1961 and ceased to be both an actual and symbolic division on November 9, 1989.
The Location of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was erected in the center of Germany, surrounding East and West Berlin to a length of about 155 kilometers (96 miles). The wall went further than laying across the East and West Berlin apart but encircling all the West Berlin excluding it from West Germany.
The wall consisted of concrete walls, barbed wire fencing, watch towers and anti vehicle ditches. When constructing it, the streets and buildings in Berlin had to be divided, as well as having no links to the outside environment at all.
The placement of the wall was calculated to provide security that East Germans who might want to cross into the west did not do so easily. They are a labyrinth that meandered through different neighborhoods, over and under parks, streets, and even crossed between families and people.
Reasons for the Construction
The Wall was erected by East Germany to stop peoples’ flight from East Germany to West Germany. After the end of World War II Germany was split into four zones controlled by the Soviet Union, United States, France, Great Britain. This resulted overtime to the split of Germany and Berlin, where the east side was occupied by Soviet while the west side was occupied by the other Allies.
Worst still the GDR economy and politics were deteriorating and many east germans felt they wished to live in the rich west. Further, the construction of the Berlin Wall was an effort by the East German Government to curb this brain drain that was stripping the country of its workforce, skilled and educated personnel in broad measure.
The wall symbolized the ideological and the political split of the East and the West as the democratic Camp met the Communism Camp. This had been a liteteral bar that was drawn across Europe splitting east from the west during the Cold War era.
The Impact of the Berlin Wall
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Berlin Wall had very significant and powerful impact for not only the Berliners, but for the people all over the world as well. People’s rights to freedom and to live as a family were violated, and that wall then represented nothing but oppression.
However, people began to associate the wall with the strength and every-one of east and west was eager to find a way to cross the wall and to be reunited with family members. It was all very inspiring: people had shared countless tales of how they tried – and succeeded – in escaping past the highly effective barrier, or inventing some ingenious way of overcoming it.
Known worldwide, the demolition of the Berlin Wall coincided with the end of the cold war and formed the dawn of a new world. The reunification of Germany had the positive and continuing implications for the future of a united Europe.
A Lesson in History
The Berlin’s wall is a symbol of political apartheid and individuals’ fight for freedom. Catt loves the possibility to depict unity and knowledge as necessary components in order to overcome difficulties and achieve a common aim.
Today one part of the Berlin Wall can be seen in different places in Berlin in order to recall the historical events. They can be seen as a Memento of those who were somehow in contact with the given object.
Travelling to Berlin and seeing the part of the Wall divided the city is not just about understanding history; it is about understanding hope after terrible tragedy.
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