Berlin Wall: Concrete Symbol of the Iron Curtain > National Museum

When the Berlin Wall opened 30 years ago, it created a fracture in the Iron Curtain and allowed safe passage out of Soviet territory But the

Professor Patrick Major explores the history of the Berlin Wall: why it was built, how many people were killed trying to cross it and its

berlin major East German authorities initially began removing pieces of the wall using angle grinders, construction vehicles and cranes in the days after 9

berlin 777 The 155-kilometer-long Berlin Wall, which cut through the middle of the city center, surrounded West Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989