why was the berlin wall created?

Question

im doing a school paper on the berlin wall and was curious about why it was put up i understand the who and the what of it but not the why

Answer 1

Thousands of people fled East Germany in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Communist authorities put the wall up so that the country wouldn't be vacant by 1970.

Here is a good background article on the why:
http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/history/escape.htm

Answer 2

The Berlin wall was built by the Soviet union to prevent its own citizens from crossing the border from Soviet-controlled East Berlin to Democratic West Berlin. West Berliners (indeed ANYONE who found their way into West Berlin) could travel freely between West Berlin and the rest of West Germany. Building the wall prevented the wholesale defection to the west of East Berliners that was beginning to occur at the time, as the conditions in East Berlin deteriorated under Soviet control.

Answer 3

The Soviets created the wall in August 1961 to keep Eastern Berliners from fleeing to West Berlin and stop the "Brain Drain."

Answer 4

There were four sectors in Berlin after the war. French, English, American, and Russian. Life was so difficult in the Russian sector, that 100s then 1000s were leaving to go to the western sectors. Hence, the wall to keep them in and westerners out.

Answer 5

The Soviet Union built the wall because they were tired of the people of East Berlin escaping into West Berlin.

Answer 6

Because East Germany became a Communist controlled area in the 1950s and many Germans were fleeing the area. In 1961, construction began to keep people from leaving because the depopulation of East Germany was resulting in a labor and economic drain. The wall was dismantled in 1989.

Answer 7

Well, as you know, after World War II Germany was under control of the Allies troops. One of those zones was under Soviet control, and Russia (Soviet Union) was communist. Therefore it named its controlled zone the German Democratic Republic (or Eastern Germany), or in other words: the poorly developed, the repressed, with all the characteristics that comunism brings to the world.
The other part was the German Federal Republic, the happy ones, lol
Anyway, as every repressive sistem, the East took the measure of separating even more the aleady divided Germany, avoiding that people who wanted to flee from the communist repression leave the country, however they said that it was an "anti-fascist" measure. And this explanation of course was totally vague, because reality showed that East Germany was losing skilled workers and professionals who were migrating from East to West, and such migration was affecting them greatly, economically and politically.

Answer 8

I think it was created in 1961. And it was created by Communist East Germany, after many people were fleeing from East Berlin, which was controlled by East Germany, to West Berlin, which was controlled by non-Communist West Germany (but was surrounded by east German territory).

Answer 9

A history book is a wonderful thing.

It will tell you all you need to know.