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The Berlin wall
Hi my name is Caleb and i am going to tell you about the Berlin wall.

The Berlin wall was a guarded concrete wall that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 constructed by german democratic republic starting on 13th august 1961, the wall completely cut off land west Berlin
From bordering east Germany and from east Berlin until government officials opened in november 1989 its deconstruction officially began in 13th of june 1990 and complete 1992

The Berlin wall was officially referred as the (anti fascist protection rampart ) by GDR authorities implying that nato countries and west Germany in particular were considered equal to fascism. The west Berlin city government sometimes referred to

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