I understand the divide between East and West, but why was the Wall erected specifically in Berlin?
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People have misconceptions about the location of the wall and Berlin. The whole Berlin was inside East Germany, then Berlin was divided in two, East Berlin and West Berlin. West Berlin became like an “island” because it was inside East Germany. At the beginning everything had to be flown in into West Berlin, so logistics were very complicated. Later on it was allowed to communicate West Germany with West Berlin with a single road. With the time people wanted to escape East Germany and everything they had to do was find a way to enter West Berlin, which was relative easy. So East Germany tightened the border and put the “wall” which initially it was just barbwire. With the time a real wall was built.
Greetings from (West) Berlin.
Since Germany was divided, Berlin was also divided, being a very powerful city.
West Berlin lied entirely within East Germany. Germans in the Eastern half wanted to flee the poor conditions under communism, and the easiest way to do that was to go to East Berlin, cross over to West Berlin, and then enter the rest of the Western world from there.
Increasing security between East and West Berlin was the plan implemented to stop this.
Mostly because it wouldn’t have made any sense for the Berlin Wall to be built in Cleveland.
The objective of the wall was to keep the people of the Soviet zone of Berlin from relocating to the other zones and depopulating that part of town.
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