Do you know how long it took to construct the Berlin Wall, now gone thankfully?

Answer 1

The Berlin Wall was erected in the night of August 13, 1961.
It was a weekend and most Berliners slept while the East German government begun to close the border. In the early morning of that Sunday most of the first work was done: the border to West Berlin was closed. The East German troups had begun to tear up streets and to install barbed wire entanglement and fences through Berlin.

The first concrete elements and large square blocks were used first on August 15, 1961. Within the next months the first generation of the Berlin Wall was build up: a wall consisting of concrete elements and square blocks.

A second Wall was build in June 1962 in order to prevent from escaping to the West.
The first Wall was improved during the next years and it's difficult to distinguish between the first and the second generation of the Wall.

These two first generations were removed by the third generation beginning about 1965. The third generation of Wall consisted of concrete slabs between steel girder and concrete posts with a concrete sewage pipe on top of the Wall.

From the year 1975 the third generation of Wall was replaced by the fourth generation. New concrete segements were used which were easy to build up and were more resistant to breakthroughs and to environmental polutions.

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Answer 2

The first wall was built over the period of a weekend, with a later and more detailed wall taking about three months to complete. And it was the first post-war crisis of the Cold War which almost wrecked an entire season of the National Football League. President Kennedy ordered the federalization and mobilization of a National Guard unit from Wisconsin. This caused Vince Lombardi to fly to D.C. and plead for the President to select some other unit because a lot of the players on the roster of the Green Bay Packers were in that unit. LOL!

Answer 3

It took three months to build. Much of the construction consisted of pre fab walls & barbed wire.

Answer 4

i do not have the foggiest ideal but would like to share a little story -- while station in germany i had the honor to visit the border in the middle of the country -- it made me glad to live in a free country -- out in the middle of this field of woods was this massive fence system with all the lights and bells guns and guards i.e. on this side was a old german guy with his little dog (dog was just for company) was there to direct us to not go to near the fence!!! thank god it came down!!!