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​The Berlin Wall was a figure in most Germans mind. It showed the power of the Communists taking over East Germany and Eastern Europe. In Germany the wall was known as //Berliner Mauer.// Many people tried to defect from both sides of the wall. The meaning of defecting in this time period was the manner of violating the laws of a nation or political entity from which a person is seeking to depart from. As shown below an NVA officer is defecting in the wall's early days to the French side. More then 5,000 people attempted to defect. The total death toll was between 100 and 200. There were 2 walls seperating each side. Ther was the West wall and the East wall with 50 yards of no mans land in between. If you got over the wall and ran through no mans land you would be gunned down. If you were one of the lucky ones you escaped with your life. The Berlin Wall consisted of concrete, electrified fences, vehicle barriers, and the notorious "Death Strip" patrolled by the border guards. Day in and day out guards patrolled the Berlin Wall and stood in over 116 watch towers. From 1961 to 1983 West Berlin lost over 340,000 inhabitants because the Soviets cut them off from the outside world which led to the Berlin Airlift.


 * GDR - East Germany
 * FRG - West Germany
 * 1961-1989 was the time period the Berlin Wall was up
 * Ther reason for the wall was to seperate the Communist Parties from the Democratic Parties and to keep the Communist citizens in East Germany from fleeing
 * The wall was 27 miles long and surrounded by barbed wire entanglements
 * The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into 2 halves and the barbed wire entaglements divided the Democratic side into 3 sectors for over 28 years
 * There were 2 walls the East Wall and West Wall and 50 yards of No-Mans land in between

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