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Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989.fter several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere.
It was a wall that divided East Germany and West Germany. The Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961 to prevent the outflow of skilled manpower from the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and other Soviet bloc countries into the Western-controlled sectors of the city and thence into the West as a whole.he Berlin Wall divided and separated the communist side of Berlin from the Capitalist side. That is what the whole Cold War was about; therefore, the Berlin Wall is a great s â¦ ymbol of that because it shows the great length that the government went to.