Who Erected The Berlin Wall. Many climbed the wall at berlin's brandenburg gate, chipping away at the wall itself with hammers and pickaxes. The communists.) the name gdr is laughable as there was nothing democratic about it.
The berlin wall was built in 1961 to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided germany to bernd ingmar gutberlet, who is something of a berlin wall archaeologist, says traces of the old stasiland:
On august 13, 1961, the berlin wall was officially constructed, separating communist east germany from capitalist west germany. The berlin wall became the symbol of the cold war and a tangible manifestation of the world's separation into two distinct ideological blocs. It separated the eastern half from the western half. The berlin wall was built in 1961 to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided germany to bernd ingmar gutberlet, who is something of a berlin wall archaeologist, says traces of the old stasiland: