On the night of August 12, 1961 the Soviet Union began to construct a wall of barbed wire, the beginning of what was and still is known as the Berlin Wall. It divided the communist East Berlin and the feudal republic West Berlin. Within weeks the barbed wire fence had been upgraded to twelve-foot concrete walls guarded by Soviet soldiers with dogs. Many people died trying to escape to the freedom of the West. However, on the flip side around 5,000 people successfully escaped to the West either by tunnelling under the soft soil of Berlin or various other methods Finally, after 28 years of the suffocating presence of the Berlin Wall, East Germany got a breath of fresh air on the night of November 9, 1989. That night Harold Jaeger opened the
