At the end of world war II, after the division of Germany, Berlin was also
divided into four sectors of occupation: Soviet, American, French and English
The construction of the wall
German Democratic Republic (G D R) he began to realize the loss of
population he was suffering and on the night of August 12, 1961, he
decided to build a provisional wall
The Berlin wall ends up being converted into a concrete wall between 3..5 and 4
meters high, with an interior formed by steel cables to increase its resistance
In 1975, 43 kilometers of the wall were accompanied by the security measures of the strip of death,
and the rest was protected by fences
The fall
It was motivated by the opening of the borders between Austria and
Hungary inMay 1989, as more and more Germans traveled to Hungary
to request asylum in the various embassies of the German Federal
Republic
On November 9, 1989 the G D R government stated that the
passed to the west was permitted