the berlin wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically divided berlin from 1961 to 1989. the barrier included guard towers

1961 1989 accompanied architecture area art attempt attraction barrier berlin border borderline building capital cities city climbing cold communism concrete curtain death defenses divided division drawing east escape europe famous free freedom german germany graffiti gray guard guarded historic historical history included landmark memorial militarized monument old people physically politics sky socialism street strip symbol that tower towers travel tunnel urban wall war was west wide zone