The Berlin Wall For twenty-eight years, the Berlin Wall separated friends, families, and a nation. After the second World War in 1945, the victorious Allies, the US, Britain, France, Russia divided Germany into four sectors, each under the control of an ally. The US, British, and French Sectors combined to form a democratic state, The Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany. The Soviet sector became a communist state, The German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, …
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…In support of this position is the fact that while thousands of people tried to cross the wall from East Germany to West Germany and over one hundred people died in the attempt, there does not appear to be a single case of anyone climbing the wall in the other direction. Overall the arrising and destruction of The Berlin Wall proved to seperate two nations, but overtime brought those nations from being allies to comrads.