Berlin+Wall+-+Payne

By: Aaron Payne ​ ​ The Berlin Wall was loacated in Berlin, Germany. It was built to split East and West Berlin. East Berlin was communist and West Berlin was a democracy. The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democractic Republic.

The Wall was built in 1961. The wall was built to seperate the Communist East Side and the Democratic West Berlin. The East Germans could no longer travel from the East and West of Berlin. Many families were split because of the wall. Many people lost their jobs because they worked on the opposite side of the wall. On July 25,1961 JFK said that the United States would defend West Germany.

The Berlin Wall was more than 87 miles long. The place in between the walls was no as No Man's Land or the Death Strip. There were 116 watchtowers and 20 bunkers along the wall**.**


 * **​There were 200 people shot from the watchtowers**
 * ** 5,000 people managed to get across the wall **
 * ** Guards were told to shoot anyone who ignored the Guards orders **
 * ** 100,000 citizens tried to escape. Most of the were shot, drowned, suffered fatal accidents, or killed themselves **

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