The Berlin Wall has now been gone one day longer than the 10,315 days it stood
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:57 am
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For 28 years, two months and 27 days, the Berlin Wall divided a city.
Today that wall has been gone one day longer than it stood.
In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany constructed a wall that totally encircled West Berlin.
The 155-kilometre, 3.6-metre-high concrete and barbed wire divider separated East and Western Berlin from August 1961 to November 1989.
But just two months earlier, the East German leader, Walter Ulbricht, told journalists "nobody has any intention of building a wall".
It took just a few hours to close off West Berlin completely.