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The fourth-generation wall was constructed from 45,000 sections of reinforced concrete, each 3.6 metres high, at a cost of around $3.6 million. The top of the wall was lined with a smooth pipe to make it more difficult to scale, while it was further strengthened by mesh fencing, trenches, barbed wire, 116 watchtowers and 20 bunkers.


The heavily-guarded "no-man's land" between the wall and West Berlin would become known as the "Death Strip". Around 200 people are believed to have died trying to escape East Berlin."

Good clip. Thank you. It brings back memories

yes it does! i remember reading about a woman who was bathing her baby, she went to the linen closet to get clean towels and soldiers burst into her house and divided it, she never saw her baby again who was in "east" berlin! How could a mother deal with that?

oh no, SHE was in the east, the baby in the west!!

“There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.”

Alan Paton