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Berlin Wall 1961-1989
The Berlin Wall was 15 feet or 5 meters
high and encircled West Berlin. All in all, it ran 103 miles or 165 kilometers
long.
The part dividing East from West Berlin
was 28 miles or 45 kilometers long.
On June 12, 1987,
Ronald Reagan
delivered his
Tear
Down This Wall speech at the Brandenburg Gate.
When Was the Berlin
Wall Built?
Construction started at midnight August 12 / 13, 1961.
Last chance for people to hop from East to West or vice versa.
Why Was the Berlin
Wall Built?
As part of the
Cold War,
the wall was to prevent people from East Germany and East Berlin to
get into West Berlin. It is said that 190 people were killed in the
attempt to enter West Berlin in spite of it.
When Was the Berlin
Wall Dismantled?
The Berlin Wall came down on
November 9, 1989.
BERLIN WALL 1989
On August 10,
2016, the German
Tagesspiegel
reported that 1,841 victims died on the
border between East and West Germany, more
than a quarter of which at the Berlin Wall.
The exact
number of victims seems almost impossible to
ascertain, but German historians continually
update their findings.
Here is
more from the
Mauermuseum (Wall Museum) at Berlin
And maybe
American Timeline
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