The border fortifications separating West Berlin from the rest of the GDR were 111.9 kilometers long. Well over 100,000 citizens of the GDR tried to escape across the inner-German border or the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1988. More than 600 of them were shot and killed by GDR border guards or died in other ways during their escape attempt.

When the Allies divided Germany into occupation zones in 1949, the boundary between the GDR’s Thuringia and the West’s Bavaria ran straight through tiny Mödlareuth. Incredibly, rather than move the border slightly, the GDR built a great …

2009年12月15日 · The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic ...

2025年3月4日 · With the city of Berlin divided into east and west by the Berlin Wall, the GDR and the FRG played a central role in the history of the Cold War. Berlin (West), which was how the city was officially known in West Germany, was situated in the middle of the GDR and, from 1961, was sealed off by East Germany and surrounded by a wall.

2024年12月9日 · In this study guide, we will cover how the GDR came into being, its political structure, economic realities, and what everyday life was like for those living in Germany behind the Iron Curtain.

1989年11月9日 · The 155-kilometer-long Berlin Wall, which cut through the middle of the city center, surrounded West Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin.

The GDR was on the verge of collapse, economically and politically bankrupt. The state border was opened, and the unification of the two German states was finally in sight after more than 40 years of separation. Since 1952, the leadership of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had sealed off the Soviet occupation zone from the West.

On the eve of August 12, 1961, the East German communist government closed the German border, and on August 13, construction of the Berlin Wall began. Families and friends were separated as GDR authorities tore up roads and sealed the border with barbed wire fencing and concrete blocks.

The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Germany from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on August 13, 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989.

2024年3月7日 · This wall constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1961 split Berlin into East and West for nearly twenty seven years. Here in this blog post, the focus will be to explain why and how the Berlin Wall was built, what influence it had on the people and countries, how and why the Berlin Wall was torn down.