3700 miles long
The Berlin Wall Online Website (see link below) lists 192 people as having been killed on the Berlin Wall.
Germany.The Berlin Wall was built in East Germany.To prevent the Western powers from demanding the Wall be removed because it was on Western territory, the East Germans built the inside wall exactly 30 centimeters on their side of the DDR-West Berlin border. 30 centimeters doesn't sound like much, but when one considers the whole Wall was 117 miles in length you can see the DDR gave up many acres of land.
The Berlin Wall was not in its entirety important to the US in a large way, any trade that they had with East Berlin would have been interrupted and also the wall stopped many skilled workers leaving the Soviets to work for the Allies. The Berlin Wall was not in its entirety important to the US in a large way, any trade that they had with East Berlin would have been interrupted and also the wall stopped many skilled workers leaving the Soviets to work for the Allies.
Putting it very simply: the Cold War partitioning of Berlin and the fact that many people in East Berlin were fleeing across the border to West Berlin and freedom. The communist government built the wall to prevent these people from fleeing.
there were 212 watch towers on the Berlin wall
3700 miles long
The Berlin Wall was a wall of many colors with lots of writing on it.
Berlin, Germany - 344.3 square miles.
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The Berlin Wall Online Website (see link below) lists 192 people as having been killed on the Berlin Wall.
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