Gone But Not Forgotten: Why the Berlin Wall Maintains a Grip on Us

berlin wall  By fall the East German regime had lost its power On November 9, private citizens began to destroy entire sections of the concrete wall that had divided the The Berlin Wall was constructed by the East German government in 1961 It cut off West Berlin from East Berlin and surrounding East Germany

Berlin Wall: Photos From the Birth of a Brutal Divide View Gallery The Berlin Wall bore the shadowy silhouettes of West Berliners waving to their relatives on Three sisters fight for opposing sides in the leadup to the fall of the Berlin Wall

The President would therefore have to watch himself No chest-thumping No Soviet-bashing And no inflammatory statements about the 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