The Aftermath
After Russia took over Berlin, the city was split into two sections. Russia took East Berlin and America and Britain took West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was built so that the people of East Berlin could not escape to West Berlin. When people tried to escape East Berlin, they were killed. The building of the wall was a reform resulting from WWII. If the war had never happened, the wall would never have had to been built and innocent lives would have been spared.
"As late as 15 June 1961, GDR head of state Walter Ulbricht declared that no one had any intention of building a wall [Film 0.81 MB]. On 12 August 1961, the GDR Council of Ministers announced that “in order to put a stop to the hostile activity of West Germany’s and West Berlin’s revanchist and militaristic forces, border controls of the kind generally found in every sovereign state will be set up at the border of the German Democratic Republic, including the border to the western sectors of Greater Berlin.” What the Council did not say was that this measure was directed primarily against the GDR's own population, which would no longer be permitted to cross the border."
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