2006-09-02 21:43:30 · 10 answers · asked by Sordenhiemer 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and approved by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the wall was a long separation barrier between West Berlin and East Germany (the German Democratic Republic), which closed the border between East and West Berlin for a period of 28 years. It was built during the post-World War II period of divided Germany, in an effort to stop the drain of labour and economic output associated with the daily migration of huge numbers of professionals and skilled workers from East to West Berlin, and the attendant defections, which had political and economic consequences for the Communist bloc. It effectively decreased emigration (escapes - "Republikflucht" in German) from 2.5 million between 1949 and 1962 to 5,000 between 1962 and 1989.[1]
2006-09-02 21:49:45 · answer #1 · answered by Sean B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Berlin Wall surrounded West Berlin seperating it from East Germany.
2006-09-02 21:46:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
West Berlin and East Berlin.....it separated families,friends,lives...etc....it was easy for people from the West to visit East Berlin, but it was almost impossible to visit from East to West.
2006-09-02 21:50:43 · answer #3 · answered by justmemimi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
East Berlin from West Berlin. It was put up overnight . . . the week after I last visited Berlin, in 1961.
2006-09-02 21:45:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Poor communist mortar. Nice german bricks. Families, churches, ways of life....they all got nailed.
Or did you mean in terms of what one sees on a map? East and west Berlin.
2006-09-02 21:45:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Germany?
2006-09-02 21:49:48 · answer #6 · answered by FemiKuti 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Democrat Germany and the part of Germany administrated by Russia.
2006-09-02 21:47:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
east and west germany
2006-09-02 21:45:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the people... it prevented the eastern Germans from getting a western mentality
2006-09-02 21:46:14 · answer #9 · answered by tsar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
google it
2006-09-02 21:48:26 · answer #10 · answered by vicky l 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋