Declassified: Building the Berlin Wall, 13-Aug -1961

berlin wall  On Saturday, August 12, 1961, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic made the official decision to close the border and erect a wall  Berlin that culminated in 1961 with the building of the Berlin Wall The division of Germany and its capital city of Berlin among the four victors of the

On Saturday, August 12, 1961, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic made the official decision to close the border and erect a wall  In the weeks after the opening of the Berlin Wall, there was a peaceful transition to democratic government in Czechoslovakia, and less peaceful

Share this post: Facebook · Twitter; Copy link The Berlin Wall came down on the evening of November 9, 1989, during a hastily arranged Before dawn on 13 August 1961, construction began on a wall that would divide Berlin in two and come to symbolise the Cold War for the next 28 years