The Berlin wall was created after World War II, after the Allied Forces had conquered Germany after Adolf Hitler had commited suicide. Germany was split into four parts from there, one part each going to France, Great Britan, Soviet Union, and the United States of America. Well, after the war, the ties between the Soviet Union and the rest of the Allied forces quickly disappeared into nothing. In result, Berlin was ripped into two different parts. The East Side, which was the part the Soviet Union had control of, and the West Side, which was the side America controlled.
The Berlin wall was made, not to restrict people from the Western side of the wall to come in, but to stop anyone who wanted to get out. Before the wall was built, people would cross over to the West Side of the Wall for a better chance to live and grow since their economy was dragging slowly compared to the heights of West Berlin's economy. So, in a single night, the Soviet Union brought in construction workers and troops to dig up the roads connecting to West Berlin, put concrete posts into the ground, took down all telephone lines connecting the two cities, and cut off all connection between the two sides of the city.
At first, the Berlin wall was just a simple barbed wire fence. However, it was fixed and upgraded 4 times in it's entire existence. The first version was exactly what was mentioned before, a simple barbed wire fence. The second version turned into a concrete slab wall with barb wire at the top. though it wasn't high. The third version this wall was a bigger, concrete wall supported with steel beams and girders. The fourth version was by far the most impressive, and imprisonable. It had concrete slabs that was made 12 feet high (3.6 m) and 4 feet wide (1.2 m), with smooth metal pipes that stopped people from climbing the pipes to get out, and was over a hundred miles long.
The Berlin wall was made, not to restrict people from the Western side of the wall to come in, but to stop anyone who wanted to get out. Before the wall was built, people would cross over to the West Side of the Wall for a better chance to live and grow since their economy was dragging slowly compared to the heights of West Berlin's economy. So, in a single night, the Soviet Union brought in construction workers and troops to dig up the roads connecting to West Berlin, put concrete posts into the ground, took down all telephone lines connecting the two cities, and cut off all connection between the two sides of the city.
At first, the Berlin wall was just a simple barbed wire fence. However, it was fixed and upgraded 4 times in it's entire existence. The first version was exactly what was mentioned before, a simple barbed wire fence. The second version turned into a concrete slab wall with barb wire at the top. though it wasn't high. The third version this wall was a bigger, concrete wall supported with steel beams and girders. The fourth version was by far the most impressive, and imprisonable. It had concrete slabs that was made 12 feet high (3.6 m) and 4 feet wide (1.2 m), with smooth metal pipes that stopped people from climbing the pipes to get out, and was over a hundred miles long.