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The Berlin Wall was completed in 1961, built by The East Germany to separate itself, from West Germany, fascist territory.
The Berlin Wall was completed in 1961, built by The East Germany to separate itself, from West Germany, fascist territory.
It consisted of two city walls with a space in between 10 meters wide and called "death strip" because soldiers had orders to shoot and kill anyone who tried to climb over the fortification. Some sources claim that the people killed while they tried to reach West Germany were 133, but they might be more than 200 counting those who were killed after being captured.
On 9 November 1989 (after 28 years) the East German government decreed the opening of frontiers. The news was announced after a conference held at 6 pm and a large number of inhabitants of East Germany, which had received the news on live TV, rushed to the border. The crowd was so huge that the soldiers, caught off guard, could not even check the identity of those who passed through the checkpoint.
The bars near the wall in West Germany offered free beer to everyone and a large number of people set about to tear down the wall sometimes picking up a few pieces for themselves as souvenirs.
On March 18, 1990 the first and only free elections in the history of the German Democratic Republic were held. They produced a government whose main mandate was to negotiate an end to the same State they represented.