East Germany begins construction of the Berlin Wall - History.com This Day in History -... - 0 views
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the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin.
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wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War.
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Throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s, thousands of people from East Berlin crossed over into West Berlin to reunite with families and escape communist repression
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