Were East Berliners Trapped?
On the Night of August 12-13, 1961, Workers Erected Barbed Wire and Temporary Barriers, Trapping East Berliners. Was East Berlin Enclosed? Listen)) Was a...
On the night of August 12-13, 1961, workers erected barbed wire and temporary barriers, trapping East Berliners.
Was East Berlin enclosed?
listen)) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin.
What happened to those who were caught trying to leave East Berlin?
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.
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