What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin wall?
The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the “Anti-Fascist Protection Wall” by GDR authorities, implying that neighboring West Germany had not been fully de-Nazified The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the “Wall of Shame” – a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt – while condemning the wall’s restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border that demarcated the border between East and West Germany, both borders came to symbolize the “Iron Curtain” between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc.
