What do you think about the fact that it was there for almost 30 years?
Can you compare the separation of the people in Berlin to something else that you have seen, read about or learned
historically?
What do you think about the building of the wall?
What do you think about the fact that it was there for almost 30 years? Can you compare the separation of the people in Berlin to something else that you have seen, read about or learned historically?
Leila
5/9/2016 11:09:20 pm
E
5/9/2016 11:56:56 pm
I actually feel the same way as you do but I also think that the president John F. Kennedy was also a part of the bad list. Because he thought that the West Berlin was free from trouble now when the East Berlin was sealed. He did not consider how many peoples lives were destroyed because of that. But official I strongly agree with you.
P
5/10/2016 01:28:41 am
I don't quite agree about yer thoughts on Kennedy. Sure, he pretty much proclaimed publicly that the Berlin Wall reduced tension, which is a good thing, might I add, but he also said in the documentary(Somewhere in it) that he regretted the deaths that the wall produced. But then again, if Kennedy acted against the wall, there was a gigantic risk of a World War 3 starting up. Same thing if the leader of France or Insignificant-Country did something.
P
5/9/2016 11:37:54 pm
Well, I believe that the Berlin Wall(Using information from the documentary we viewed) was essentially an easy "out" for East Berlin(And whatever other ones there was/is) on the problem of losing the population to West B, which, as you all know, was/is controlled by U.S.A, France, and some other insignificant(In this case) country of which I forgot.
P
5/9/2016 11:47:39 pm
As to the fact that it was up for almost 30 damn years... Well, people just weren't revolting enough. Sure, the government had their hands tied, but that left the people who WANTED to leave to the West to do something about it. Might've caused a third world war, might've caused a massacre or two, but atleast people would be free. And buy copious(Lots) amounts of alcohol drink themselves silly, those who wanted to.
P
5/9/2016 11:49:46 pm
I wonder why the president of East Berlin never let people go. If he only gave his people freedom then the wall didn't have to be build.
N
5/9/2016 11:52:22 pm
Oops my bad this is not my letter sorry i got confused reading p questions that i used p as my name. 😔
P
5/9/2016 11:54:38 pm
I can't help but be reminded of America, a couple hundred years in the past, when hearing about this Berlin Wall. Like the North and the South, I mean. Except this is between the West and the East, there was no wall except the metaphorical wall between freedom and oppression, and no slavery was involved. I think. Just alot of similarities, I guess.
L
5/12/2016 05:15:04 am
I totally agree, but I feel like in America there was a bigger hope that they could be free, because they had a president that had their back. Abraham Lincoln thought that slavery was not okay and I think that gave the slaves hope for freedom. A hope that people in East Berlin didn't get.
P
5/13/2016 04:27:26 am
Good point, but while there wasn't a huge political figure that actively wanted to help the people in the middle of the "Berlin Situation", there was undoubtedly always people who helped, or tried to, in their own way. As stated in the Documentary, a family escaped using a train, and was helped, later celebrated, by the "inhabitants" of the train.
D
5/9/2016 11:57:27 pm
Well,,I that the Berlin Wall interesting thing,but all the people in west germane had a bad life and scary because it's so hard too see you'r family evad,and maybe they will die .
P
5/10/2016 01:20:30 am
I am not quite sure what you mean, there. Could you explain, please?
M
5/9/2016 11:58:17 pm
I think the building of the wall was correct. Because they didn't had it financially good, and they recognised that people were leaving east berlin and that was not good fore the economy. But if you think, on the other hand it maybe wasn't that good because what if i lived in the east and my family was in the west, that would not be so fun, not seeing your family in about 30 years. So the building of the wall was both correct and incorrect.
P
5/10/2016 12:26:10 am
Well, I'm not quite sure on the "Correct" part, there. Sure, financially, it might've been sound at first glance, but really, it was probably quite damaging to the economy(Which it didn't exactly help in the first place) and to their finances, since people might straight up refuse to work, for several reasons, like the one you stated about Family and stuff.
Q
5/10/2016 12:58:06 pm
M I totally agree with you beacuse they were stopping people to go over the wall. the saved East Berlin beacuse If the people In east would keep going to the west then the east would't be a state anymore but the only thing thats wrong Is the family and the friends or the people you know could possiply be at the other side. Kennedy was smart to not try a third war beacuse a lot of people, countries and the nature could possibly destroyed just beacuse of money and a freaking wall.
E
5/11/2016 01:36:16 pm
I understand you feelings towards the wall Q but I got to say that I disagree with you when it comes to what Kennedy did. I know that he did not want a third war but I also know that if he tried hard enough he could simply just prevent the wall in a peaceful way, I mean how did Ronald do it? I know that it is hard but if you like think about it and compare Ronald to Kennedy you can clearly see that Ronald had more ambition then Kennedy and thanks to Ronald they finally succeeded in taking the wall down.
Q
5/10/2016 01:05:46 pm
Sorry for my writing skills but i hope you guys understand the text😂
Q
5/12/2016 01:07:42 am
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C
5/12/2016 04:11:21 am
I wonder if all people left the east Berlin into the west. What is gone happen between the countries that cotrolled the cities, for example the east side had Russia (soviet) and the west had America,France. What do you think guys
M
5/16/2016 11:21:13 pm
To answer your question (C). I think if all the people who is living in the East left and went to the West, the East would be pissed of and try to get their people back, or they would even put more security to try to stop the people at any cost. Or at the worst they would start a world war 3 because they didn't have it financially good and they needed the people to work. If they started a world war 3 it would be Russian vs France, USA, great Britain.
C
5/16/2016 11:38:44 pm
C
5/16/2016 11:42:35 pm
N
5/12/2016 05:12:01 am
I wonder why kenedy never did anything while his people got trapped in the East berlin?
N
5/16/2016 11:37:45 pm
I am sorry but i made some mistakes first and foremost it was a mayor that ruled the East
Y
5/12/2016 05:15:13 am
I think that the Berlin Wall was unnecessary, the government in East Berlin could instead of building the wall they could made East Berlin a better place. If I was in the government I would try to make East Berlin just like West Berlin. But the stupid government wasted a lot of money and almost 30 years to make the wall stronger and make it harder to escape for the East Berliners. Why do you think the government didn't try to make East Berlin to a more peaceful place?
N
5/12/2016 05:18:05 am
I agree with you y but the president wanted dictatorship.
L
5/12/2016 05:18:49 am
I agree with you and I think it was because when they started they felt like it would be a bigger waste to tear it down (they was totally wrong).
N
5/12/2016 05:22:00 am
You mean they *were totally wrong
L
5/13/2016 04:27:04 am
Yes thank you for the correction.
T
5/13/2016 04:36:46 am
As we where told, the East Berlin had a certain rules that people didnt like that's why people left the East Berlin. What do you think?
N
5/16/2016 11:12:38 pm
Yes, you are right it is because people never had freedom to do anything they wanted.
W
5/12/2016 05:15:27 am
I can compare that to the immigrants because their is people who hate the immigrants and want them to be in their home country and some people want them to have a better place in their country. Also that the immigrants just want a better home but the government refuse to let them go.
N
5/12/2016 05:20:34 am
By the way w they had good home they were not imigrants but the thing is that the president saw many people living East going to the west that's why he build the wall to stop people from visiting the west
T
5/12/2016 05:22:15 am
I think the building of the Berlin wall was build because of the fear, fear of loosing city's population and fear of people leaving the city. That's why i think the government build the wall, made it more dangerous so that no one would leave. Basically they lived in East Germane by force.
J
5/13/2016 04:31:49 am
I totally agree with you, but you forgot that the economy was not the best in the East and I think thats the main reason the East built the wall.
P
5/13/2016 04:31:54 am
That has happened several times during the course of history, as in oppressing people into service, essential slavery, or forcing them into citizenship.
Z
5/15/2016 01:14:42 pm
I really igree With you. They thought the only way that They could stop the people was to build a Wall. becouse East Barlin couldn't be state anymore if people would go to west Barlin'
N
5/16/2016 11:40:35 pm
I agree with you j
J
5/13/2016 04:21:29 am
I think that building the wall was actually a smart move by the GDR, because it stopped people from leaving the East. East Berlins economy was not the best and they needed money. Building the wall was the only way to keep the people in the East not leaving and the economy got better. But at the same time I feel bad for the people who have not seen their families for over 25 years. I think it would suck not seeing your family for 30 years. The wall was good for the GDR but bad for the people living in the East.
P
5/13/2016 04:35:21 am
You gotta remember, though, that building the wall was more damaging than helpful in the end. People probably refused to work, reducing the overall workload of East Berlin.
T
5/16/2016 11:20:26 pm
But people escaped every single year. It's not like they build the wall and it automatically stoped people to escape.
A
5/13/2016 04:24:44 am
I can compare the Berlin Wall to the refugees who are training all they can to move from their country because it ain't safe there. In EastBerlin the people risk their lives to escape to the other side of the wall, which was the West. many people died but the people never gave up. They came in different ways to escape such as jumping over the wall, dig under it or even fly over it. Now the refugees are trying to do their best to escape to other countries, many dies on the way to the freedom just like the people in EastBerlin, the refugees are taking unsafe trips such as boats with many people in it boats with many.
E
5/19/2016 05:11:28 am
I would compare that to North Korea because both East Germany and Korea had a communalism and many people were and are against that even to day. They both prevented people leaving the area in a heartbreaking way. The differences are that North Korea do not have a wall really but it's like a wall around the country because you can't get out. But the East had a wall that totally split the wall which I think is more worse then Korea today.
L
5/13/2016 04:27:26 am
P
5/16/2016 11:56:34 pm
Honestly... Yeah, the Berlin Wall was probably a good thing. The lesser evil, compared to a fully-fledged war. Lots more people would've died than those who did when they tried to escape from the East(and all other communist places).
L
5/17/2016 03:18:52 am
In the last sentence it was ment to be a question. After reading the question I can understand it was a bit weird written. What I meant was if the wall was worth it if it prevented the Third World War.
T
5/13/2016 04:30:47 am
What do you think about the building of the Berlin Wall? What where their expectations ?
N
5/13/2016 08:38:29 am
The East build the wall so that people would not leave to go to the West because many people were leaving the East going to West. In short the East were decreasing in people and fast.
J
5/13/2016 04:32:47 am
I have a question to you guys. What would you do if you lived in the East side and hated the wall? Would you try to escape?
P
5/13/2016 04:44:19 am
Honestly, probably not. Even if I would hate having my freedom taken away from me, I'd rather live a little miserably instead of a huge chance of death. 'Course, I would try to form up a plan to escape, but I wouldn't do the "Run and Pray" tactic.
A
5/13/2016 04:51:46 am
Mmm I probably wuould try to escape because life without freedom ain't a good life, that's what I think.
Y
5/19/2016 05:15:39 am
A I agree with you, a life without freedom is like living in a prison. Me and my family escaped from our country for the injustices and that we felt were held against us. My family put us in danger just to get freedom.
N
5/13/2016 08:43:37 am
To say the truth i would no risk my life to go to the West. I would have just stayed in East until i am one hundred procent sure that there is a safe place to cross over. I know some of you will disagree with me but that is what i would have done or else i would have left the East before it became tougher to cross over.
P
5/13/2016 06:11:12 pm
Yep, pretty much my thoughts on it.
L
5/14/2016 07:09:49 am
I think that I would think about escaping but I would be to scared to actually escape. That was also a smart plan from the eastern government to tell the people about the faild escape plans to scear the escapers.
M
5/18/2016 12:33:53 pm
I have a question fore you all. If you where the government in East berlin would you also build a wall? If no how would you prevent people living East berlin?
E
5/19/2016 05:03:29 am
I would never build the wall, because of that I don't think it is right to split a country in two. What I would do is a very hard thing but I would try making peace with both sides without breaking a war or building a wall.
M
5/19/2016 05:04:34 am
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M
5/19/2016 04:57:36 am
Honestly I would not try to escape East berlin because I wouldn't risk my life to try to get over that wall, what if i failed? There is many, many people who had failed. But on the other hand if i make it I would live like a free man in the West. So you just gotta think long and hard, cause if a guard sees you hi will shoot. So its unclear if I would go over the wall.
H
5/19/2016 05:04:55 am
I would obviously escape, without any regret. Who wants to stay in the East where there is only injustice wisdom? And live a life as you were living in a prison? I could never spend my life in misery and injustice wisdom. I would do everything that i need to do to reach freedom (west). What is life without justice? Nothing at all.
i
5/13/2016 04:43:48 am
a
5/15/2016 11:13:38 am
You have very good fact's about the Berlin Wall bout i don't agree with evry thing you said especially when you said that the wall was good, because many people died trying to escape over the wall. But I hope you meant something else when you said the wall was good.
N
5/16/2016 11:20:39 pm
I agree with you a and at the same time I don't agree with you because many people wanted to cross over but they couldn't because they may die while crossing and at the same time it the wall was good because it stop war from happening that is what I think
H
5/13/2016 04:48:00 am
What I do think of the wall is that it was unnecessary and all the wall did was to make people angry. People got killed when they tried to escape over the wall to the other side, and many families were separated for almost 30 years. Even the president of East Germany were very shameless as he kept on upgrading the wall and made it even more impossible to infiltrate and go over and that did cost a lot of money. So in the end i feel like the wall was just unnecessary and a waste of money in the same time as it was a tyranny of civilians.
Z
5/13/2016 10:48:07 am
I actually feel Sad . The Barlin Wall was very strange becouse the Wall was built almost over night. As we all know more than 138 people died in Barlin Wall including people attempting to escape,border guards and innocent parties but most of the people were trying to escape over the Wall between East and west Barlin (death strips) in other hand John f. Kennedy didn't consider the population of East Balin and he is also responsible what happaned in Barlin. The East Barlin society did what ever They could becouse They had sacrifice thier lives how They would get justice and freedom, in My Idea, IF there is no freedom there is no life,, Barlin Wall was totally wrong 100%
Z
5/13/2016 11:02:36 am
The Wall between USA and Mexico was a like Barlin Wall. In 2006 construction started on a border fence separating the United states and Mexico after violence, drug-related crimes as well as illegal immigration surged,
C
5/19/2016 05:12:06 am
I agree with you that the Mexican wall was separates the united state and the Mexico. I think the reason why the wall was built was because too much of the Mexican people wants to go to the western united state so the united state decided to build the wall because of some drug-related issues.
L
5/14/2016 07:14:24 am
If you would escape would you bring your family with you or would you leave your family behind.
P
5/15/2016 09:52:11 pm
Escaping all together is too risky, since there's more feet walking around, which equals to more noise. No, I would devise a plan to send everyone off one-by-one, myself goin' last to supervise everything. Probably the safest option.
F
5/16/2016 11:31:39 pm
I would try to tanke my family with me beacause it is not funny to live without your parents or someone else who is near to you.
J
5/16/2016 11:41:56 pm
I think that I would try to escape without my family because if I went with my family and got caught we would probably get caught and killed, and i would never take that risk, seeing my family die, thats the reason I would go by my self.
J
5/19/2016 04:27:06 am
Sorry i forgot to delete (caught and)
N
5/19/2016 04:58:37 am
I do not agree with you because maybe if some one of your family dies they want to tell you their last words and you were not there that would be sad. To tell the truth i would have been a decoy for may family to get away. In case that was the case. I am glad i was not in that situation. I feel sorry for the people who died and their families who suffered without a member or members of their family.
P
5/15/2016 09:53:02 pm
There's also quite a but of similarities between the Berlin Wall and the Wall by a Sexist, Idiotic, Half-Baked-Potato-For-Hair, Donald Drumpf, who is also presidential candidate in the upcoming American Election(Lord help us all).
N
5/16/2016 11:35:45 pm
I agree that the berlin wall and Drumpf's wall do not have alot in common but at the same time i disagree with you because maybe if he did not talk about security that does not mean that he will not keep security around there
E
5/16/2016 11:23:15 pm
would compare the Berlin Wall with Drumpf's wall that splits America and Mexico from each other, the similarities are that both America and East Berlin wants to build the wall because of that they are losing their economy but the difference here is that people from Mexico comes to America and do illegal stuff so they earn a lot of money in that and America loses a lot of money in that way. But East Berlin built the wall because of they didn't wanted people to leave the East because in that way they would loose a lot of economy and the government didn't want that. But as East Berlin pushed the wall and made it more deadly with minefields, watch towers and more deadly stuff. In the end they only lost money because the wall went down after 30 years
E
5/19/2016 04:49:18 am
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I
5/16/2016 11:26:03 pm
Would you escape, why and how would you escape?
F
5/16/2016 11:37:58 pm
I would try to escape with my family and i would try to fix the ballon just like you said you wanted escape with.
N
5/18/2016 08:44:34 am
If i was going to escape i would have dug very dip down and i would have made a very big tunnel so that me and my family could get away i would have worked hard even though it took me2 years i would have made sure that the tunnel was big enough and dip enough for everyone to enter.
Y
5/19/2016 04:50:40 am
Y
5/19/2016 04:50:55 am
Y
5/19/2016 04:48:42 am
Y
5/19/2016 04:49:07 am
T
5/19/2016 04:49:55 am
I would escape with a grappling hook which reaches over the wall and to the other side. And then afterwards I would get my own wall, like that guy in a documentary.
T
5/19/2016 04:59:38 am
People in East Berlin escaped every single year and they spend allot of money for 30 years and they torn it down 30 years later,so my question is was it so bad to live in East then in West? What did it make it so bad?
W
5/19/2016 05:01:22 am
If it would be that I would have to leave my family,I would not escape to the other side. I would prefer to be with my family.
Y
5/16/2016 11:29:50 pm
There are so many people who were trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin. Many put their own, and their families, lives at risk, just to have a better life. There are still so many people putting their lives in danger just to get a better future, tex Afghans who leave their families in Afghanistan and flee to Europe just to have an opportunity for a better life. But the escape to Europe is probably not as simple as it sounds. Think of the people from East Berlin who tried to escape over a wall, and there were so many who died. Imagine how it is when people flee to another continent.The downside of the escape is that people risk their lives over the road. But the advantage is that they can reach their goals in life and create a better future for themselves, potentially.
E
5/16/2016 11:33:53 pm
Would you escape to West Berlin even though you had every member in your family in the East and if you knew that it would go down after 30 years?
N
5/18/2016 08:51:59 am
As i said earlier before i would have dug a very dip hole and i would take almost all my time to make that hole big enough for my family to go through. I think i would have risked my life if it was to save my family i would have done it without second thoughts.
E
5/19/2016 04:58:25 am
I don't think that you really understand my question N. What I mean is that you and your family already live in East. Would you escape to the West then?
F
5/19/2016 05:04:45 am
I Think i would wait 30 years until the Berlin Wall was down and if I tried to escape then maybe I should die so it is better to wait 30 years instead of maybe get killed of trying to escape.
g
5/16/2016 11:34:00 pm
It was a very, very difficult system and it was impossible to get over the Berlin Wall. It was extremely costly to build the wall so instead of getting money, the Soviet Union lost money. I think that dogs and mines did much security for the Berlin Wall.
I
5/16/2016 11:35:19 pm
The Great Wall of China is a series of walls made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states. But the china wall is one of the biggest and oldest walls in history.
F
5/16/2016 11:40:29 pm
Why want Donald Trump fix a new wall and if he built the wall where should he build it?
W
5/16/2016 11:42:05 pm
I think it was unnecessary and bad that they built the Berlin Wall and let it remain there for 30 years because there were many who came down and fled to the other side but many people also died or eparerades from his family although they tried to prevent the people to escape.
E
5/17/2016 01:48:45 am
In opinion of the fact that the wall was up for almost 30 years is that it was a tragedy for all civilians and almost a cause for a Third World War. Still it says that the wall was called and seen as the " Wall of shame" ( source: Wikipedia) which explain how bad the wall was. But that's my opinion, What's yours?
N
5/19/2016 04:51:54 am
I think it was called the Wall of shame because it brought shame to the East berlin because many people hated and ran away from their
A
5/17/2016 01:53:00 am
P
5/19/2016 04:40:09 am
Well, that's what desperate, power-hungry and greedy officials do every day. Everything they can to keep their position and gain money, I mean. And if that entails building a giant wall aswell as potentially murdering a couple innocents, then that's what they're gonna do. Unfortunate, but neccesary, in their eyes. Well, fortunate, in some eyes.
N
5/19/2016 04:50:14 am
I know the way you feel and most of the time i imagine me being in that situation. I feel pitty for them. 😭 It is so sad.
F
5/18/2016 11:09:15 am
How long did it actually take to build the Berlin Wall?
A
5/18/2016 11:50:13 pm
The Berlin Wall was build over a very long period and there were different steps of building up the wall. The Berlin Wall was build on
N
5/19/2016 04:47:36 am
It takes really long it took them because they were building it all the time and making it harder for people to escape.
T
5/19/2016 05:00:32 am
30 years
A
5/18/2016 11:54:18 pm
I have a question for you guys what country had control over the government of East Germany? and Around how many people left East Germany through the city of Berlin in the ten years prior to the wall being built?
G
5/19/2016 04:46:16 am
In my opinion it was hard to retain the wall on place, because the soldiers have to check 24/7 if anyone trying to get over the wall and we saw that one soldier had been shot from those who tried to escape. That can give low ego to other soldiers. It should be difficult for Soviet Union pay money for it to do it bigger in 30 years and everything went bad in the end and the wall destroyed.
g
5/19/2016 04:59:22 am
An similar story on Berlin Wall is the Great wall of China. Great wall of China has been builded 770 - 476 BC and it was emperor of China who builded the wall. Great wall of China has been builded because of defend China from nomadic tribes. An another reason is because China people would stay in China. Because they pay taxes and emperor of China want that they would pay taxes so they could get more money like East Germany thought.
F
5/19/2016 04:59:37 am
Around how many people left East Germany through the city of Berlin in the ten years prior to the wall being built?
N
5/19/2016 05:08:31 am
I don't really know but before the wall was built about 3.5 million people left from East.B to West.B. I guess it had become less because the was was being built so not as much as people left the East than the way they used to leave before the wall.
L
5/19/2016 05:05:09 am
I can Amos compare this to the immigrants because they want to escape the country but the leaders of the country don't allow them because they still want their country to have a population so they can continue to be a country. And that's why people risk their to leave the misery they are in.
E
5/19/2016 05:11:58 am
Who is Amos?
N
5/19/2016 05:13:03 am
Who is Amos.
L
5/19/2016 05:14:50 am
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W
5/19/2016 05:08:58 am
Why do you think so many people wanted to escape to the west Berlin ?
N
5/19/2016 05:20:17 am
Because they did not have freedom to do what they wanted in the East.
F
5/19/2016 05:09:12 am
I've got a question for you people, why do you think John F Kenedy didn't want to take down the Berlin Wall?
M
5/19/2016 05:17:28 am
N
5/19/2016 05:18:04 am
He did not want to bring it down because it brought peace to the East and also to the West.
F
5/19/2016 05:18:32 am
I can compare America when it was slavery. The slaves was trying to escape from the south to the north and in The Berlin Wall people are trying to escape from the east to the south.
T
5/19/2016 05:19:31 am
There are allot of countries that bouild a wall and are still up, there is not like the Berlin Wall was the only wall that was build. Like most of you compared it to Great wall of China or the wall that Donald Trump want to bouild.
H
5/19/2016 05:19:35 am
I have a question for you guys. If you only have two options, the first option being that you escape over the wall all alone to the West and you succeed, but that means that you will never meet your family again, or that your family escape across and they succeed without you, and you still never meet them again? Which option do you chose?
J
5/19/2016 05:23:04 am
The Berlin wall can be compared to the Palestine wall, and when you think about both walls have much in common. The East side built the wall to keep people from the east not leaving. Israel built the wall because they did not want the people from Palestine moving to the Capital. Israeli wall is 8m tall, the berlin wall is 3,6m. The berlin wall is 155km long and the Israeli wall is 723km. Many people from the East wanted to escape and many from Palestine want to escape. Many people died trying to escape. Comments are closed.
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