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Email. The Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago today. Built in the middle of the night Aug. 13, 1961, the wall divided East and West Germany for 28 years to stop East Germans from leaving the Soviet Union-occupied country for the capitalist western state. SLIDESHOW: 'Tear Down This Wall!'. Over the years, what began as a simple fence turned into a concrete wall that separated the capital and became a focal point of the Cold War. On Nov. 9, 1989, the East German government announced its citizens could move west.
Report Abuse. The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to keep people in East Berlin from escaping into West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was torn down when the people of East Berlin decided that they had had enough of Communism and being oppressed and everyone in Berlin took over the city and tore down the wall.