Berlin trip

Sorry for not posing over our trip to Berlin but we were out all day.

During our trip we got a driver to drive us around Berlin and show us Lots of cool attractions such as the Berlin wall, Checkpoint Charlie and many others.

The Berlin Wall:

The Berlin Wall is a very famous parts of Germany's history.
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that cut off west Berlin from East Berlin, constructed by German Democratic Republic.

Facts:

The Berlin Wall stretched over a hundred miles. It ran not only through the center of Berlin, but also wrapped around West Berlin, entirely cutting West Berlin off from the rest of East Germany.

The Berlin Wall started out as a barbed-wire fence with concrete posts, but just a few days after the first fence was placed, it was quickly replaced with a sturdier, more permanent structure made out of concrete blocks, topped with barbed wire.The last version of the Berlin Wall, constructed from 1975 to 1980, was the most complicated one, It consisted of concrete slabs reaching nearly 12-feet high (3.6 m) and 4-feet wide (1.2 m), plus it had a smooth pipe running across the top to hinder people from scaling the Wall.

West Berlin, which remained free as a part of West Germany, had a much stronger economy than East Berlin, which like the rest of East Germany had a Soviet-style, state-controlled economy. 

The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years. Its construction began in 1961, and it was eventually dismantled in 1989. The reason for the building of the wall came because over two and a half million people escaped to West Berlin between 1949 and 1960.

Over 5,000 people successfully escaped from East to West Berlin during the lifetime of the Wall. Approximately 200 people were killed trying to escape, and another 200 were shot but not killed.