Berlin Wall

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Cold War symbol border barrier fortification

The Berlin Wall was a fortified concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, symbolizing the broader Cold War separation between the Eastern Bloc and the Western world.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cold War symbol → border barrier → fortification →
borderWith	East Berlin → West Berlin →
causeOf	families being separated → refugee deaths at the border →
constructedBy	East German government → German Democratic Republic →
country	East Germany → West Germany →
currentStatus	mostly demolished →
demolitionEndDate	1994-01-01 →
demolitionStartDate	1989-11-09 →
endDate	1989-11-09 →
event	Berlin Crisis of 1961 → Fall of the Berlin Wall →
fallDate	1989-11-09 →
governingAuthority	East German border troops →
hasPart	anti-vehicle trenches → border lights → bunkers → death strip → guard towers → signal fences → watchtowers →
historicalPeriod	Cold War →
length	about 155 km →
locatedIn	Berlin →
material	barbed wire → reinforced concrete →
notableLocation	Bornholmer Strasse crossing → Checkpoint Charlie → Potsdamer Platz →
numberOfBorderGuards	thousands →
numberOfWatchtowers	over 300 →
opposedBy	Federal Republic of Germany → Western Bloc →
partOf	Inner German border →
purpose	control movement between East and West Berlin → prevent emigration from East Germany →
remnantLocation	Bernauer Strasse memorial → East Side Gallery →
separated	East Berlin → West Berlin →
startDate	1961-08-13 →
supportedBy	Soviet Union →
symbolOf	Cold War division → Iron Curtain → division between Eastern Bloc and Western world →

Referenced by (20)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bornholmer Strasse crossing → East Side Gallery →	partOf
fall of the Berlin Wall → inner German border →	relatedTo
Ich bin ein Berliner speech →	addressesIssue
East Berlin →	borderedBy
Invalidenfriedhof ("Berlin Wall death strip") →	crossedBy
Checkpoint Charlie →	crosses
Hungary–Austria border ("Iron Curtain fortifications") →	hadBorderFence
East Germany →	hadBorderFortifications
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library ("Berlin Wall exhibit") →	hasFeature
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library ("Berlin Wall segments") →	hasPart
Governing Mayor of West Berlin →	historicalContext
American sector of Berlin ("Construction of the Berlin Wall") →	historicalEvent
Iron Curtain →	included
Berlin Crisis →	resultedIn
West Berlin →	separatedBy
Tribune Tower →	stoneFragmentsFrom
John F. Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech →	topic
Berlin →	wasDividedBy