August 13Th 1961 began the construction of the Berlin Wall, approximately the distance that the wall will divide Berlin was 160 km. Something impossible to build in one day, the first stage of the wall was a barbed wire fences. Then during the summer of 1961 the GDR army started to replace the temporary wall for a concrete blocks wall.
During the period of five years, the GDR army had built 25 km and 210 observation towers. This wall represented a symbolic boundary between Communism and democracy during the Cold war.
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