What was the purpose of the berlin wall?
The Berlin Wall was absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the Nazis. It was built in 1961, 15 years after the Nazis had been beaten, the divide the Eastern sector of Berlin from the Western sectors. The reason it was built was to stop the constant escape of people from the Eastern, communist part, of both Berlin and Germany to the West. Due to large numbers leaving, the internal border between East and West Germany had been closed in the 1950s, but this left Berlin as a ‘loophole’. Approximately 3.5 million people, or 20% of the population had left the East by 1961. Most of these were young, better educated and effectively was a massive ‘brain drain’.The East German authorities wished to stop this and built the wall which totally surrounded the western sectors of the city.
