Berliner Mauerweg

Great! This is the only part of the Berlin Wall in a residential area where many houses have been relocated to make room for the wall (several houses), with car barricades, guard towers, “shooting areas” and automatic firing machines. Here you can see how the East German army prevented its own people from defecting, and even with all sorts of defensive measures you can see the tunnels dug by people - some successes, some failures.

The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, consists of two parallel walls, the area between which is controlled by watchtowers, guards and barbed wire. This is called the death zone". From August 3, 1961 to November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall divided the German capital into two parts, lasting 10316 days. Leave a small section as a scenic spot.

The Berlin Wall, formally known as the Anti-Fascist Defence Wall, is 155 km long. Since then, East Berlin, West Berlin, East Germany and West Germany have become the landmark buildings of Germany's division and cold war.

During the war, NATO faced off heavily with the Warsaw Pact, the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on Berlin. Two intelligence armies of the East and West, the Soviet KGB and the United States Central Intelligence Agency, each showed their strengths. The CIA's head in West Berlin was David Murphy, and the KGB was in East Berlin under Serge Kunderashoff. The two had never met before, but knew each other well. Not long ago, they met and wrote a book, The Battlefield of Berlin, which uncovered several insiders in Berlin’s spy war.

East German armed guards and barbed wire handles stand in front of the landmark Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin in August 1961, before the Berlin Wall began construction. On the morning of August 13, 1961, East German soldiers began building the Berlin Wall. During the construction of the wall, East German tanks lined up on a bridge in Berlin to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to West Berlin. The Brandenburg Gate, a famous historical building in Germany, was surrounded by a semicircle of the Berlin Wall on November 19, 1961. The historic building, once seen as a symbol of German reunification, has since become a symbol of German division.

On November 9, 1989, the German government announced that citizens would be allowed to apply for visits to the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin, and the Berlin Wall was forced to open. In June 1990, the German government formally decided to dismantle the Berlin Wall.

It's worth visiting. Looking back on history, we can see that the graffiti on the Berlin Wall is a major feature. It's a cry for peace, a commemoration of the merger of East and West Germany, and a memorial of figures. Driving used to be very convenient, roadside parking can be free.