History & Heritage

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

How peaceful protests in nineteen eighty nine brought down the wall that divided Berlin.

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1For twenty eight years the Berlin Wall divided one city into two separate worlds.

2East German leaders built it overnight in nineteen sixty one to stop people escaping west.

3Families were separated, and many people lost their lives trying to cross the border.

4Guards watched the wall day and night from hundreds of tall concrete towers.

5By nineteen eighty nine, peaceful protests filled the streets of cities across East Germany.

6On the ninth of November, officials suddenly announced that citizens could travel freely.

7Huge crowds gathered at the checkpoints, and the confused guards finally opened the gates.

8People climbed onto the wall, dancing and hitting the concrete with small hammers.

9Within a year Germany was united again after four decades of painful division.

10Pieces of the wall now stand in museums as symbols of freedom and hope.

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