West Berliners waving to relatives over the Berlin Wall, Germany, Christmas 1961

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West Berliners waving to relatives over the Berlin Wall, Germany, Christmas 1961
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One thing I never hear anyone say, but…. It just blows my mind that they could separate a city with a wall. I’m sure soldiers with guns were a big part of it, but still. It just seems so unrealistic.

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Soldiers on watchtowers with machineguns, a wall, and a nice, empty kill-zone in-between the two halves of the city.

Also, West Berlin was surrounded by East Germany, entirely.

Much easier to isolate in that context.

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