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During the night of 12 to 13 August 1961,
some thousand members of German Democratic Republic (GDR) armed forces blocked the roads and railways leading to the western sectors of Berlin
and began putting up fencing and barbed wire around West Berlin.
The building of the Berlin Wall, separating the eastern and western sectors of the city, became a symbol of the division of Germany and of Europe.
I actually own a piece of the wall from when it came down; got it from an airborne guy who'd been stationed there.


