Why didnt people just walk around the berlin wall instead of trying to cross it?

why didnt people just walk around the berlin wall instead of trying to cross it?

god damn people were retarted before the internet

They didn't have maps back then dipshit!

some even swam across the Donau with nothing but their clothes, heroes!

The counties around East Germany were communist allies and also on lockdown.

They didn't have legs back then dip shit

>leaving their families behind to be executed by the KGB

Yea.. true "heros"

German-fag (child of the cold war era) here: How dumb are you?
West-Berlin was surrounded by a wall. Try to "walk around" a surrounding wall. Dumbass.

>KGB
East Germany had the Stasi.

why would they want to leave? obviously the wall was to keep others out. why would anyone want to have a society that's so shitty you literally have to keep people kidnapped and held hostage there. that doesn't make any sense OP.

look at the map. they couldve just walked all the way south and then crossed into the west

youtube has been trying to get me to watch some video with this theme but so far ive been too smart to click that shit

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That's not the Berlin Wall, that's the inner German border.

How are you that stupid? Not East-Berlin (GRD, socialist Germany) was surrounded by the wall, West-Berlin (imperialist Germany) was... The borders of West-Berlin all led to the GDR.

The GDR itself had an ordinary border to the BRD...

However, as the border was within the City itself, many people tried to escape from East-Berlin by crossing the wall to West-Berlin. If you managed to get there without getting shot, you were welcome to become a citizen of the BRD.

Moving to West-Berlin from any other part of West-Germany (GDR) was quite popular among young people, as men could avoid military service. Also, due to its status West-Berlin was quite cheap to live in back then...

Was there not a wall there too?

Kek

Most of it was just a fence and the so called death strip. A few parts of the border were walled off.

pay attention dipshit, he's talking about the BERLIN WALL, not the iron curtain.

Interesting. So why did so many people try to cross into Berlin? Why didn't they just cross from east Germany into west Germany (which sounds like it was much less guarded and a lot more safe)?

It was a border... you do know how borders looks like? But no, it wasn't a solid wall all along the border. However, it was patroled at all times, there were mines, there were spring guns, there were trip wires, some lethal, some non lethal, soldiers with dogs... So yeah, trying to cross it was risky.

pic related, it shows a part of said border...

In fact, it was easier to cross the Berlin Wall instead of the inner German border. There is an interesting documentary about some creative ways people used to cross it, it's called "Flucht in die Freiheit". Look it up, it should have English subs.

Ah yes, don't tell the Mexicans you can walk around a wall please.

Was anyone shot attempting to sneak into East Germany?

My bad nigga.

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Just imagine this...

> pick a City you know
> now just bouldoze a huge stripe from one end of the city to the other and build TWO parallel walls all along that stripe with approx. 20m apart of each other.
> add some guard towers
> add some soldiers with guns, dogs, cars, lamps, and so on
> everything else is still intact
> busy people
> busy roads
> you can actually SEE what is going on on the other side
> so yeah...

If it happened, then I've never heard about it. People who illegally crossed the border into the GDR probably got captured.
Except Merkel. Her family actually moved from Hamburg to East-Berlin during the seperation.

East Germany was a society built on equality. Everyone was welcome to visit the GDR regardless of race or income.

The only people shot at the border were American spies blindly being led to their death by their inferior intelligence services

that's some BS right there... not everyone was welcome. Not even close.

Not everyone. Ever heard the name Wolf Biermann? A former citizen of the GDR who wasn't allowed to come back to his country.

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