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A 7 page examination of the history of the Berlin Wall. This paper concentrates on telling the stories of those who escaped. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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obliterated, this horrendous divide between people and community stood some twenty-eight years. At its height the border divide included three hundred watchtowers, twenty two bunkers, machine gun armed guards,
and a strip of mine-laden clear land about fifty yards wide that deterred those that considered crossing (Rodden, 2001, 9). In the 103 mile segment in Berlin this border
was fortified with barbed wire and stone blocks. In actuality the divide between East and West Berlin, the divide between the Soviet sector and the West, that the wall
represented was initiated not on August 13, 1961 when construction on the actual wall was started (Taylor, 2006, 9) but rather within one year after the end of World War
II. The Wall was just a solid affirmation of the emphatic attempts that were started in those earlier years to control passage over the border between East and West
Germany (Rauch, 1957, 1). With the construction of the Berlin Wall, however, some seventeen million people were effectively trapped in the Soviet bloc (Rodden, 2001, 9).
The Berlin Wall was intended to capture the East German workforce for government utilization (Lasky, 1992, 61). It was intended to be impenetrable and did
indeed inflict long-term damage to people and relationships separating families and communities alike (Schmemann, 2006, 88). Many individuals and even families, however, were able to escape the boundary the
wall represented. In doing so they escaped the oppression of East Berlin, reunited with their loved ones in a better place where life was not so adversely bleak (Schmemann,
2006, 88). There stories are stories of innovation, perseverance, and triumph. Those who fled the oppression of East Berlin did so for
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