Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between Democracy and Communism during the Cold War.

This week we have been talking about the Berlin wall in memorial of its demolishing. The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. Its destruction, which was nearly as instantaneous as its creation, was celebrated around the world.

At the end of World War II, the Allied powers divided conquered Germany into four zones, each occupied by either the United States, Great Britain, France, or the Soviet Union. The same was done with Germany's capital city, Berlin. I  brought in a piece of the Berlin wall from the west side (because there was only graffiti on the west side, not the east) It was very interesting.  

By Cian Maguire and Lorcan Keoghan, 6th class