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At least 171 people died trying to cross the death strip to get to their lost families. Or to break free from the hellscape within.

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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encased West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany.

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The defeated nation was divided into four "allied occupation zones": The Soviet Union took over its eastern portion, while the United States, Great Britain, and (in time) France took over the western side.

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The Yalta and Potsdam agreements divided Berlin into similar sectors, even though the city was completely within the Soviet region of the country (it was about 100 miles from the border between the eastern and western occupation zones). The other Allies obtained the western half, and the Soviets took the eastern half. In June 1945, this four-way takeover of Berlin began.

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The Berlin Wall's official stated goal was to prevent so-called Western "fascists" from invading East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but its main goal was to stop large-scale east-to-west migration.

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During the Cold War, to prevent the population (of Berlin) from escaping Soviet-controlled East and West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. They, ( the German Democratic Republic) divided the city of Berlin into two physical and abstract contrasting zones.

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The Berlin Wall was not just one wall but two, it was 96 miles long and 13 feet tall in total, but it was 28 miles through the middle of Berlin and 75 miles around West Berlin. With a mined corridor of land surrounding it known as the death strip.

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"Stuck like a bone in the Soviet throat"

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"Stuck like a bone in the Soviet throat"

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...as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev put it, The Soviet Union started making moves to drive out the United States, Britain, and France permanently from the city of Berlin. A Soviet siege of West Berlin in 1948 aimed at driving the western Allies out of the city by starving them to death.

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Instead of retreating, however, the United States and its allies supplied the regions of the city from the air rather than removing their troops. The Berlin Airlift was an operation that brought more than 2.3 million tons of fuel, food, and other supplies to West Berlin over the course of more than a years time. The operation truly lasted from June 1948 until September 1949.

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Although, more than 5,000 East Germans, including 600 border guards, were able to escape the border by crawling through sewers, flying in hot air balloons, climbing the barbed wire, jumping out of windows near the wall, and driving through weaker sections of the wall at high speeds.

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On November 9, 1989, the spokesperson for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change regarding the city’s relations with the West. He claimed that from midnight onward, GDR residents could freely enter and exit the country as they pleased. The citizens immediately poured through the gates at midnight.

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The following weekend, more than 2 million citizens of East Berlin traveled to West Berlin to take part in what was deemed "the greatest street party in history." Cranes and bulldozers tore down sections of the wall one piece at a time. While people used hammers and picks to break off portions of the wretched wall down; these individuals came to be known as "mauerspechte," or "wall woodpeckers."  The wall was quickly demolished, bringing Berlin back together for the first time since 1945. "Is the war really over?" was spray-painted by a Berliner on a section of the wall.

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I had a lot of pleasure studying this topic because it revealed to me new, deeper, and more thorough aspects of the Berlin Wall. It really makes you reflect on the saddening events in our history. And makes me aware that the world can at times be both wonderful and terrible. Padlet is very user-friendly and well-thought-out, offering your project a crisp and clear design. Which is always pleasant given the effort that is put into projects of this nature.

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David Turnley - Berlin Wall - HISTORY, January 13, 2023

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall