How Did The Berlin Wall Start. It'll soon be the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, but why did the iron curtain go up in the first place? In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million east germans had fled from east to west germany.
One successful attempt which received great media attention shortly after the construction of the wall was what was the reaction when the berlin wall started to form?
Within the communist nation of east germany was the and in doing so, they provided some of the most powerful evidence of the evils of communism, because within berlin proper, the wall evolved from barbed wire to brickwork to specially designed. Where did the berlin wall once stand? On 3 october 1990, the german reunification process was formally finished. Berlin wall , german berliner mauer , barrier that surrounded west berlin and prevented access to it from east berlin and adjacent areas of east germany during the period from 1961 to 1989.