What was the Berlin Wall's purpose?

Answer 1

The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to force people to remain in the eastern half of Berlin. At the time the wall was built, millions of people had fled East Germany to seek better lives in the west. many of the escaping through Berlin. The wall stopped them and forced them to remain in East Germany.

Answer 2

The building of the Berlin Wall was to stop the vast numbers of East Germans in East Berlin from escaping into allied held West Berlin. The wall stopped the easy escape from East Berlin, however, various methods were used to tunnel or by some other means get over or under the wall. It was a dangeous trip as the orders of the East German soldiers were to shoot escapees.

Answer 3

To separate communist east Berlin from free west Berlin.

Answer 4

The Berlin Wall separated the dependent states of East and West Germany. The West was backed by the United States and its allies, and the East was controlled by the USSR.

Answer 5

The Communist Russians used it to prevent the spread of capitalistic values into their Eastern Berlin. It kept out westerners and the ideas they would bring with them.

Answer 6

The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep all the East Germans who had marketable skills from defecting to West Germany.

Answer 7

To keep East German doctors and engineers from defecting to West Berlin.