Who built the Berlin Wall and why was it built?

Answer 1

The building of the Berlin Wall was ordered by Walter Ulbricht, leader of the East German communist SED party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands - Socialist Unity Party of Germany).

The main reason for building the Berlin Wall was to prevent a "brain drain" from East Germany to West Germany. From 1945 until the building of the wall, approximately 3.5 million people escaped into West Germany (including many Poles and Czechs. As these were mainly young people, this placed extreme pressure on the economic systems of Eastern bloc countries.

Another factor was that many West Germans were buying East German currency on the black market and then buying basic foodstuffs and the few luxury goods that were available (because they were state-subsidised and generally much cheaper). This too had an adverse effect on the East German economy

The official reason given by the ruling SED party in East Germany for the building of the wall was to prevent revanchists and agitators entering East Berlin and East Germany and referred to the wall officially as "antifaschistischer Schutzwall"(anti-fascist barricade).

Answer 2

To stop people from defecting from communist East Berlin into free West Berlin. The communist leaders of East Berlin were both embarrassed by this flood of people leaving and concerned about its economic impacts as critical workers were often the first to leave as they could get better paying jobs in the West, so they ordered the construction of the wall in 1961.

Answer 3

At the end of Ww2 the Russians got to Berlin before the Western countries. As a result Berlin was divided into a eastern and western sections. The result of that was communist east Germany and west Germany. The Berlin Wall was built to keep people in eastern Germany and to keep Western influence out.

Answer 4

it was built to separate Berlin, but later on it was broken.

Answer 5

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