At the End of World War II Germany was split into two distinctive parts. The East and West Germany. After this, Germany built the Berlin Wall in the capital of Berlin. In 1949, the countries that combined together to make West Germany were Britain and France and the countries that were combined together to make East Germany were the United States and Soviet Union.West Germany's living conditions were thriving economically. East Germany were Communists and lived in extremely poor conditions. By the late 1950's the East Germans fled to West Germany with a total amount of 3.5 million people.
The Berlin Wall stretched over 100 miles and at first was just a barbed wire fence with concrete posts. The final destruction of the Berlin Wall was 12 foot high and 4 foot think concrete slab with a smooth pipe at the top to keep Germans from crawling over. East Germany and the Russians were the ones who built the wall. Some escape attepts of the East GErmans were that some would try to fling ropes over the wall, some rammed it with trucks, and one group even collected scraps of cloth, made a hot air balloon and flew over.
The Berlin Wall stretched over 100 miles and at first was just a barbed wire fence with concrete posts. The final destruction of the Berlin Wall was 12 foot high and 4 foot think concrete slab with a smooth pipe at the top to keep Germans from crawling over. East Germany and the Russians were the ones who built the wall. Some escape attepts of the East GErmans were that some would try to fling ropes over the wall, some rammed it with trucks, and one group even collected scraps of cloth, made a hot air balloon and flew over.