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Berliner Mauer
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.
The Wall running through the city center, which separated East and West Berlin from one another, was 43.1 kilometers long and 3.60 meter high. The border fortifications separating West Berlin from the rest of the GDR were 111.9 kilometers long. Well over 100,000 citizens of the GDR tried to escape across the inner-German border or the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1988. More than 600 of them were shot and killed by GDR border guards or died in other ways during their escape attempt.

It was painted on the western side, while the eastern side was white. Actually, both sides were white from the beginning, but the western side was soon covered in art and graffiti. Many artists begun to paint on the Western side of the Wall in the beginning of the 80s.