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Explores the Cold War era focusing on the Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift, and the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.