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Berlin Wall 1961

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August 18 1961

What was just sections of barriers and barbed-wire, construction workers stared replacing the barbed wire by a wall made of hollow blocks. You know that if you don't cross the border now, you may never see your family again. You must cross the wall into West Berlin, but how?

In the night of the 12 to the 13 of August, Walter Ulbricht, as SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Ger.: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands)) party leader and Chairman of the National Defence Council of the GDR, (German Democratic Republic [East Germany]. (Ger.: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR)) gave the order to seal off the sector border in Berlin. Having obtained the agreement of the Soviet Union a few days previously, and with the support of the Soviet troops in the GDR, the regime closed off the last route for escape from the Party dictatorship: in the early morning of August 13, border police started ripping up streets in the middle of Berlin, pieces of asphalt and paving stones were piled up to form barricades, concrete posts were driven into the ground and barbed-wire barriers erected.

A few days later, in the night of August 17 to 18, groups of construction workers stared replacing the barbed wire by a wall made of hollow blocks.


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Thank you everyone who enjoys and doesn't enjoy my map. A few notes after reading your comments. I have no plans on doing any WW2 based maps in the future, but you are free to edit my map as a base, all I ask is credit. I do have plans to expand the map(s) in the future but I have to be careful because this map is very detailed will be hard on for users with low-end PCs. In regards to historic buildings, I thought about doing Brandonburg Gate but there is a lot of open space around it and i don't think Teardown is fun if there's not a whole lot to destroy. Plus being a historic building brings an expectation to be 1-to-1 accurate to the real thing, and that will require a lot of research and assets that i don't have. I do have plans on adding the Fernsehturm in later maps but as a background asset. Finally this page may become obsolete as i am working on a series of maps in different timelines of the Berlin wall and will be accessed via a "menu", keep an eye out. Again, Thank you everyone.


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