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Berlin Wall Description
The history of the Berlin Wall began in 1961. In order to stop the ever-increasing flood of refugees from the GDR into the then undivided city of Berlin, during the night of Aug. 12, 1961 units of the People's Police, workers' militia groups and the National People's Army of the GDR sealed off the eastern part of the city and the borderline between West Berlin and the GDR, and began to erect street barriers and barbed-wire fences. The number of check-points was drastically reduced from 81 to seven and the trams and underground services completely halted. A concrete wall and border barriers gradually followed. The "Wall" was officially designated by the East German government as a "Protective Wall against Fascism
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