The wall was not exactly a safe place to be. After the Wall was built, the East German side made a 100 meter width "no man's land". They removed all buildings to get the 100 meter free space to be able to control the border. This zone was placed under close surveillance and anyone entering it required a special authorization or faced a heavy penalty. The guards at this zone were not allowed to shot until they had given the person a warning that the person disobeyed. The Wall cut through 192 streets, 32 railway lines, 8 S-Bahn and 4 underground lines, 3 autobahns and several rivers and lakes. When the wall was finished the first time around, it was made up of seven and a half miles of concrete slabs, 86 miles of barbed wire and covered with 116 watch towers. Altogether, the wall was replaced four times. The second wall was built in June 1962 to prevent people from escaping to the west, as the wall needed a little more support to keep people from escaping. The third generation replaced the first two in 1965. The third generation consisted of concrete slabs between steel girder and concrete posts with a concrete sewage pipe on top of the wall. The fourth and final generation of the wall was built in 1975. This time the government used new concrete segments which were easier to build up and more resistant against breakthroughs and environmental pollutions.

e since because the Soviets were already stationed in the East at the end of the war. But since the capital, Berlin, lay in the Eastern part of Germany, they divided it up the same way, the Soviets in the east and the Americans, French and British in the west. The Americans soon passed the Marshall plan, which pumped loads of money into West Germany and all the other Western countries to raise their economy. While the economy of West Germany began to rise, the one of East Germany began to fall. Many East Germans began to move west, where they could live a much better life. The Soviets had to do something to stop the fleeing of East Germans. In 1952, the East German government closed the border between East and West Germany, but people could still move to West Berlin, as many East Germans did. The Soviets could not do anything else to stop people from leaving the East and their economy could not handle it anymore, so the East Berliners built the Berlin Wall in 1961. The wall was taken down in 1989, when Mikhaïl Gorbachev officially declared the end of the Berlin Wall. During the Cold War, the Soviets encouraged the building of the Berlin Wall to shore up the East German economy and to maintain their communist government.

The Berlin Wall was built to stop East Germans from moving over to West Germany or West Berlin. The wall was supposed to raise the east’s economy and protect them from anything else the west had planed as far as changing the government or taking over. The Soviet Union trie

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