What is there worth seeing about the Berlin Wall in Germany?

East Side Gallery, this is the most famous point in the ruins of the Berlin Wall. The ruins of the wall are less than 2 kilometers away and you can see the 50-year microcosm of the city, the country and the world. You can walk around it. Then he burst into tears. The most famous work is this "Brotherly Kiss" by Dimitri Vrubel.

During the division of East and West Germany after the end of World War II, Berlin was divided into two parts by the Berlin Wall built in 1961. From then on, the demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a landmark event for the end of the Cold War between the East and the West and the reunification of the two Germanys. The beginning of the process. Today, only a few remnants of the Berlin Wall can still be seen. On September 28, 1990, 180 artists from 21 countries created paintings of different themes on the 1,316-meter-long Berlin Wall.

The change of leaders made the Democratic Republic of Germany finally make the decision to open the Berlin Wall. On the day the Berlin Wall was opened, 100,000 East Germans flocked to West Berlin. East and West Berliners were separated for the first time in 28 years. Finally, they were reunited again. In the second year after the opening of the Berlin Wall, Germany also completed its reunification.

From the establishment of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, 39 people were arrested in 28 years, and the number of people arrested reached 3,221, while only 5,043 people successfully fled to West Berlin. , the people paid a heavy price during this period.

I also met interesting street performers here. This area belongs to Berlin's subculture area, with groups of artistic and decadent young people, so the artistic atmosphere is also very strong, and there are also a large number of small vendors selling art trinkets.

Let’s take a look at this interesting young man from another angle.

Historical Gossip

The history of the Berlin Wall: Germany was occupied by the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France during World War II. In 1949, the occupied areas of the United States, Britain and France were merged into the German Federal Republic. The Soviet-occupied zone established the German Democratic Republic, and Germany split into two countries. Under this circumstance, Berlin was also divided because it was occupied by four countries. The western part under the control of the United States, Britain and France was called West Berlin, and it faced East Berlin under the control of the Soviet Union. During the economic recovery and development after the war, West Berlin received aid from Western countries, especially the United States, and its economy developed very rapidly, thus attracting a large number of East German people to flee to West Germany through West Berlin. After suffering huge losses, the Democratic Republic of Germany adopted the method of building a separation wall in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from entering West Germany. This protective wall was the famous "Berlin Wall" (Berliner Mauer) in history. The Berlin Wall was originally just a barbed wire fence, and was later transformed into a concrete wall. The Berlin Wall is 169.5 kilometers long and consists of concrete walls and barbed wire. A large number of watchtowers, bunkers and trenches were built along the wall. The Berlin Wall cut off a large number of roads, railways, and even lakes to navigation, completely isolating West Berlin from East Berlin and becoming an isolated island within East Germany.