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The border was a physical manifestation of Winston Churchill's metaphorical Iron Curtain that separated the Soviet and Western blocs during the Cold War. It marked the boundary between two ideological systems – Capitalism and Communism. Built by East Germany in phases from 1952 to the late 1980s, the fortifications were constructed to stop the large-scale emigration of East German citizens to the West, about 1,000 of whom are said to have died trying to cross it during its 45-year existence. It caused widespread economic and social disruption on both sides; East Germans living in the region suffered especially draconian restrictions.

See Wikipedia, Inner German border.
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Source Inner German border 1985
Author Hardo Müller from Southampton, United Kingdom
Camera location51° 44′ 24.37″ N, 10° 37′ 41.67″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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