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It took about 18 months from the time the Wall opened until the entire structure, minus the piece they left up as a museum, was removed. Among the many tasks accomplished were removing the two walls that surrounded no-man's land, tearing down all the guard towers, removing the spikes from the Spree River--the East Germans ran a row of spikes down the middle of the river, right along the East/West Berlin border, to keep people from swimming across--digging up all the land mines and unexploded ordnance, including quite a bit from World War II, and evaluating all the guard dogs to see if any could be retrained
Answerit was built in 1961 and taken down in 89 so it took 28 years to knock down.The Berlin Wall was built started on the 13th august 1961.
It took about 3 months build.
It took about three months to build. Most of it consisted of prefabricated concrete slabs and barbed wire.
the Berlin wall was up for approximately 20 years
It was 140 kilometers long or 87 miles long.
Some bits of the wall are still standing today but it did take a matter of months at the least for most of it to come down. Possible even a few years.
They were still working on it when time came to take it down.
the wall stayed up for almost 30 years
ummm, i think for about 28 years
The Berlin wall was 145km long (90 miles) and 3.6m tall (11.8 feet).
The Berlin Wall was 3.6 metres tall and 155 kilometres long
The Berlin Wall was 167.8 km (104.875 mi) long
IT took exactly 5 months to put it up.
The Berlin Airlift was in '62 when the wall went up.
Yes
I have no idea why the Berlin Wall was erected in 1965. I can tell you that the Berlin Wall they erected in 1961 was put up to keep East Germany's intellectuals from leaving for West Berlin in the middle of the night.
because the wall was in the city Berlin
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin was the city divided by the Berlin Wall.
Berlin Wall