★ At the border with West Berlin soldiers jumped out & blocked the streets with coils of barbed wire.
★ The Berlin Wall had been born.
★ Since its formation in 1949 ,West Germany had prospered.By 1961 its people were among the best-off in the world.East Germans were less fortunate.
★ Their wages were lower.
★ They had less to buy in the shops , less chance to speak their minds.Millions fled to the West .
★ By July 1961, the number of East Germans making these one-way trips had risen to 10,000 a week.
★ Many were highly skilled workers : engineers,Doctors , scientists.
★ East Germany’s rulers knew that their country could never prosper without such people.
★ They built the Wall to stop anybody from leaving.
★ It was not until 1989 that its people tore down the Wall as a first step towards re-uniting their city.
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