The Wall was made mainly of precast concrete panels with big concrete pipes on top of them. It was only a few inches thick at the places the panels were used. Around the Brandenburg Gate, they built this very strong structure with concrete, block, steel...lots of things to make it strong enough that a tank couldn't batter its way through. (The East Germans were worried about a tank battering its way through at the Brandenburg Gate, for some reason.) And in other places, it was big metal mesh panels. These you would see down in the Potsdam area--places where East Germans either didn't live or couldn't see anything really prosperous. They didn't want people trying to escape just to get nicer houses like they saw in the West. And along the Spree River, which separated East Berlin from West Berlin in places, they put a fence down the middle of the river so no one could swim over, and called it good.
The impact of the Berlin Wall was threefold. First, it separated families. There were many families who lived in different districts in Berlin. If Jurgen and Änne lived in Teltow and Friedrich and Maria lived in Wilmersdorf before World War II, and Jurgen and Maria were brother and sister, after the Wall went up they couldn't see each other any more.
Second, it enabled a Soviet occupation on the eastern side of the Wall.
And third, it interfered with commerce. The whole DDR/BRD split did.
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The Berlin Wall.
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The Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin was the city divided by the Berlin Wall.
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