Berlin Wall Art
- Imagination knows no limits
Freedom knows no walls

First some history: Soviet blockade of Berlin's western sectors all connections from West Berlin to theWestern zones are blocked.The west became known as West Berlin, and East Berlin became known as The Soviet Sector.


from a postcard

 

The Berlin Wall was erected in the night of August 13, 1961. It was a weekend and most Berliners slept while the East German government began to close the border. In the early morning of that Sunday most of the first work was done: the border to West Berlin was closed. The East German troups had begun to tear up streets and to install barbed wire entanglement and fences through Berlin.

The wall is built and separates the city into two parts for more than 28 years. Streets, the railway and the S-Bahn are broken, stations of the U-Bahn are closed, even cemeteries are not spared.Nothing is forgotten and the East Germans will not be allowed to travel to the West until 1989.


from a postcard

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