It was not possible without special permission, which was seldom granted.
East Germany was a communist country with no elections. West Germany was democratic with elections.
Construction began in 1961, and it came down in 1989.
East Berlin was the capital of Communist East Germany. However, many East Germans wanted to escape East Germany in order to find freedom in West Germany. The easiest way to do this was to cross into West Berlin, which was an enclave of West Germany that was completely surrounded by East German territory. The East German government was dismayed by the number that East Germans who were leaving East Germany and, therefore, built the Berlin Wall in 1961 in order to prevent the further hemorrhaging of population.
The Germans tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989 that separated Germany into the East and West.
East Germans could go out of east germay and west Germans could go out of west Germany and it was the fall of Hitler and Stalin and the end of communism.
We put pressure on the East Germans...they had the wall.
The Berlin Wall was built by the Communist government of East Germany to stop East Berliners & East Germans from escaping to the free & democratic West Berlin. The East German government also built a series of razor-wire fences, guard posts, minefields, walls, ditches & vehicle obstacles to prevent East Germans from escaping from East Germany to West Germany.
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to West Germany.
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to West Germany.
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to west Germany.
The Berlin Wall