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The Wall was both a physical barrier between West
Berlin and East Germany, and the symbolic boundary
between western democracy and Communism during
the Cold War. Started in August 1961, the wall was 96
miles (155 km) long and had a height of 11.8 ft. (3.6 m) in
the section that divided the city.
Little remains of the Berlin Wall within the city itself.
A double row of cobblestones traces its 3.5 mile (5.5
km) route through the city center, while the Berlin Wall
Memorial on Bernauer Strasse includes a preserved 197
ft. (60 m) strip of “no man’s land” where the wall once
divided the city.
The Berlin Wall
[ “Mr. Gorbachev,
tear down this wall” ]
President Ronald Reagan
(1987)
The Berlin Wall
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