Name: Arzo Sayar

ID: 16400
Class: HUM 299

Berlin Wall Separating East and West Germany

About 168 km long, the berlin wall was built to separate the city of berlin in
Germany to stop people escaping form the eastern half of Berlin to western
Berlin. When the Germany split into west and east. The majority of German
people started to go to west germy from the East Germany in order to stop
this trend and to keep countrys people in, the Communist government of
East Germany decided to build a wall which separates the East and West
Berlin in Aguste 1961. While the Soviet and East Germany believed that this
wall was built to keep the capitalism out. They said, as the West Germany
refused to recognize East Germany as an independent country because they
wanted to take over North-East Germany Just like Hitler. The official purpose
of this Berliner wall was to keep wester Fascist from entering East Germany.
And undermining the socialist state.

The berlin wall was made of concrete and wire fences about two to three
meters high. Had signaling system in the floor, which would cause an alarm
to be sounded when touched. The borders between East Germany and West
Germany was heavily defended with fences and mines. East Germans
needed a special permit to live close to the border

After the reunification of Germany in October 3. 1990, the berlin wall was
demolished and taken away. A few sections of the wall remain and became
museum now. One of the sections has turned into one of the worlds biggest
street art exhibitions today.

East Germany differed from the West Germany. As the West Germanys
economic grew, and it standard of living improved, many East Germans
wanted to move to West Germany. The East Berlin police who guarded the
wall was gevin the right to shoot people at the time of fleeing. People were
no longer able to leave. Despite that; people used different ways of escaping
East Germany and entering West Germany by digging long tunnels under the
wall, waiting for the winds and taking air balloons o eliding along aerial wires.
The fall of the berlin wall began on November 1989. People were using
different tool in order to get rid of the wall. After fall of the wall east germany
adopted the West Germany currency, both became united. While; still years
after reunification, people in Germany talk about the cultural differed
between east and West Germans and a specific group of people are unhappy
about the fall of the wall.