Berlin Wall and to pass it on to the coming generations as a reminder to stand up for freedom and democracy to ensure that such injustice may never happen again," entreated Mayor Wowereit. "It has been shown once again: Freedom is invincible at the end. No wall can permanently withstand the desire for freedom", proclaimed President Wulff." Notes Bibliography Further reading Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by
The Fall of Berlin (film) Fall" was supposed to be part of a cycle of ten films about the premier's role in World War II, entitled "Stalin's Ten Blows", though not corresponding with the eponymous series of Eastern Front campaigns. The project was only partially fulfilled until Stalin's death. As with all films in which his character made an appearance, Stalin took a keen interest in the work on "The Fall of Berlin". The premier intervened in Pavlenko's writing, read the screenplay's manuscript and corrected several grammatical mistakes; he also deleted a short sequence during which a German civilian in Berlin exhorted his family to