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    The Berlin Wall

    Anne Stawicki - 2009


    At the end of WWII, the German capital of
    Berlin was divided into sectors:

    East Berlin -
    communist West Berlin -
    democratic
    The Spree River along
    the Berlin Wall
    East
    Germany

    West
    Germany

    SPREE RIVER
    The “wall” went through the
    middle of the street
    separating families,
    neighbors, and friends. . . .
    East Berlin with guards

    West Berlin
    Friends and family had to
    share important events and
    celebrations across the
    distance of the barriers and
    wall.

    Walls cannot break the


    relationship and bonds
    between family and friends.
    A second wall was eventually built
    100 yards to the east of the
    In the “nooriginal wall.
    man’s land” between the two wall were:
    ▪293 watchtowers
    ▪66 miles of anti-vehicle trenches
    ▪hundreds of killer guard dogs
    ▪countless searchlights and alarms, self-firing
    guns, and landmines

    Checkpoints were set up along the wall where guards looked at


    people’s passes very carefully.
    The construction of the
    Berlin Wall.

    Diagram shows the


    area of Berlin Wall.
    ESCAPES
    171 people were killed
    or died attempting to
    escape the Berlin Wall
    between August 13,
    1961 through
    November 9, 1989.

    Almost 3,200 were arrested for trying to get over, under or


    through the wall.

    Some 5,000 East German escaped.


    Throughout East Berlin there were border guards.
    The border inspection check area was called:
    Checkpoint Charlie.
    Twice, East Germans escaped in a
    car so low that it could be driven
    right under the horizontal bars at the
    crossing points. Vertical bars
    were added to make
    this impossible.
    Many escaped in cleverly designed hiding places in cars driven
    by West Germans who could cross the border legally.
    The border guards began to use mirrors to look under cars and
    used dipsticks to be sure engines had not been
    tampered with.

    the Trabant
    In 1964, nine East Germans escaped, one by one, by hiding in a
    three-wheeled car so small that the police didn’t even bother to
    search it. The East Germans hid where the car’s
    heating system and battery belonged!
    The first barricades of
    barbed wire and bricks only
    required determination and
    courage to find or to make an
    opening and jump through it.
    Conrad
    Schumann, an East Berlin
    border policeman made his
    Escapes from escape that was caught on
    East Berlin to camera.

    West Berlin
    During the first days several
    people lost their life killed by
    the East border guard.
    Gϋnter Litwin was the first
    victim shot down by the
    border guard in East Berlin on
    August 24, 1961.

    At the beginning people tried


    to climb over the Wall or
    through the fences. They
    jumped out of houses which
    were in the border area.
    They built tunnels to escape.
    August 17, 1962

    18-yr. old Peter Fechter


    was shot as he tried to
    scale. For 50 min.
    he lay moaning in sight of
    West Berliners. He
    bled to death just 2 ft.
    from freedom.
    The two families who used a home-made hot air
    balloon to escape to into West Berlin. Their
    story is called “Night Crossing.”
    The Wall came down in
    November of 1989
    The Soviet Union’s economy was struggling and
    could no longer afford to send troops to help patrol
    the Berlin Wall. It was too large a
    task for the East Germans to enforce the wall.
    The opening of the Berlin Wall began the reunification process of Germany.

    East Germany and West Germany became one country,


    Germany, on Oct. 3, 1990

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