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Berlin, March 2021
Anna Kaminsky
FROM THE BUILDING OF THE BERLIN WALL TO THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DIVISION
Maria Nooke
On 13th August 1961 at 1:00am, the lights went out at the Brandenburg Gate and police and members of the East German army moved towards the sector border. Ten minutes later, the GDR announced that measures were being taken which would help to “guard and control”.1
Within a few hours, the GDR government had closed the border to West Berlin with barbed wire. An impermeable border fortification was built over the next days and weeks – the Berlin Wall. Pictures of this formidable border installation were sent around the world. Confused faces and a Wall of armed soldiers at the Brandenburg Gate have become engraved in the collective memory. On November 9, 1989, the Brandenburg Gate was once again the focus of worldwide interest: The Wall had fallen. There were images of people dancing with joy on the concrete Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
The euphoria felt when the division came to an end was not only felt by Berliners, not only by Germans in the East and the West, but by people all over the world.