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=BACKGROUND INFO =

==**During the cold war the Berlin Wall started being built (August 13, 1961). The reason this wall was built was to spererate west Berlin from east Berlin, because west Berlin was the democratic side and the east was the Comunist side, but all of Berlin was on the communist side germany (East Germany) thats why west Berlin had a hard time leaving the city and gettin supplies that they needed (America, Britian where the ones that gave them the supplies that they needed to servive. This was called the Berlin airlift). Many people from the West were trying to escape but really couldn't, the only way was to go over the wall. **==



Documantry of the wall
media type="youtube" key="nch5MbnvTqY" height="390" width="480" align="center" == This video was made from someones point of view who was effected by the building wall him and his family. He basically talks about how it was to live during this time period and what people went through trying to escape and be with there family's. ==