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Berlin Wall 2

After World War II, the Yalta Conference confirmed that Germany was to be divided into four sectors:the American, British, and French in the west, and the Soviet Union in the east. From June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949, the Soviets blockaded Berlin's Western side from the Eastern side. This is what we call the Berlin Wall. In 1948, during construction of the Wall, the Soviet Union cut off all rail water supply to the West, Western Berlin. During the summer of 1952, the border (Interzonegrenze) between Western Berlin and the Soviet Sector (Eastern Berlin). As people began crossing the wall with rope, the Soviets outlawed the sale of rope or twine and anyone breaking this law would be ...

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the morning of sunday, August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall began contruction under the leadership of Erich Honecker to block off Eastern Berlin from Western Berlin with barbed wire and anti-tank obsticals. Streets were torn up, barricades made, tanks gathered at crucial areas, and the subway and local railway systems were interupted. People of Eastern Berlin were no longer allowed to go into Western Berlin at all. In the following days, construction took place and stone barricades were replaced by a solid wall.The wall was 96 miles long, over 14 feet tall, and lined with other obstacles. There was 42 miles of wire mesh fencing, 65 miles of anti-vehical trenches. It also had 20 soldier bunkers and 302 watch towers from which 3200 people were arrested, 160 killed, and 120 injured, while 5000 managed to escape the soldiers. The was in segments with a luminated area on the eastern side know as the watch area, but more commonly known as the "death area" (refugees reaching this area were ...

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Added: 6/12/2005 04:53:43 AM
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