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Time Travel─── 03:15 Tue, 11 Sep 2018
Berlin Wall Erected In 1961
August 1961, the troops in East Germany began to seal the border between East and West Berlin. By doing so they blocked off the escape route for refugees from the East. The barrier ended up being 12 feet high and 66 miles long with a further 41 miles of barbed wire fencing. Over the years, nearly 200 people died trying to cross the wall. It became the symbol for the divided world. the complete wall in the 1970s. 
