People left East Berlin for the freedom of West Germany. While people of all ages fled, many were young and had hopes for brighter futures. It was nearly impossible to do this living in East Germany.
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 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.
The Berlin Wall
Germany is west of Poland.
East Germany and East Berlin.
To keep east Germans in east Germany
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 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.
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.
The Germans tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989 that separated Germany into the East and West.
We put pressure on the East Germans...they had the wall.
He and the Soviet Union built the wall to keep East Germans from leaving. There many more opportunities and better living in West Germany than in East Germany. If they didn't build the wall basically they would have nobody living in East Germany.
It was not possible without special permission, which was seldom granted.
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to West Germany.
After WWII, Germany was defeated by the allies and divided. East Germany was run by the USSR (Russians). Berlin, the capital, was located in East Germany, but was controlled by the USSR and the western allies. The Berlin wall was build to keep the East Germans in Eastern Berlin from entering Western Berlin of Western Germany.
It is in the east of Germany, in what was once East Germany.