Berlin, and the Wall

The Wall. What a fascinating history. So briefly a rough overview. After the second world war finished Germany was divide up by the allies, Russia getting the east part of Germany, England, France and USA the west part. Berlin being the capital and in the East was divided up too, Russia getting the east and England, France and USA the west. The reason behind the allies being in Germany was to get the country back on track, diffuse the Nazis etc., then hand it back. So there sits Berlin like a little island in the middle of East Germany. The Russians begin to close borders, communism the flavour of the day. Life in East Germany gets grim, food shortages, loss of freedom of speech etc, naturally people don't like this and by the 1000s flee to the west. The Russians get their knickers in a knot and decide that this will have to stop so one night in Aug 1961 they put barbed wire around West Berlin , then built a wall, 156km long! Families split apart and not reunited for years. Many amazing stories of escapes.
1989 The cold war finishes, the wall comes down and families reunited, 2 years latter Germany unified.
We have gone wall searching, some areas easy to see where it was, some not so.
Through a cemetery


This area more touristy, an interesting museum to see and lots of posters to read


No mans land, middle of Berlin and its still a wilderness


This is a marking that shows where the wall ran. Sometimes disappears under a new building then reappears again the other side.


A bit of the wall near Check Point Charlie, now covered with chewing gum