My perceptions of the Berlin Wall: learning about it has been really amazing. It had been a while since I had really studied it and what all it entailed. It was amazing to learn that there was an outer wall and an inner wall; that the top of the wall itself was curved so that if you did make it to the top you had little chance of holding on. I never knew that the space between was called the death strip! What a terrible idea to have to live with. Knowing that in between there was barbed wire, guard dogs, gun men, a ditch just in case someone tried to drive their car through. I just cannot imagine what the people felt walking by that monstrosity everyday and knowing just what it actually stood for and even worse potentially having family on the other side.
I also had never thought about the
actual people as having built the wall.
I don’t know who I thought did it, the government themselves maybe. It was terrible to learn that armed guards
would stand watch over the builders while they worked and to make sure they
didn’t just try and jump over the when they were finished. Some of the pictures of the workers were
really sad as well as some of the pictures of what happened when people tried
to escape. It had to have been an
entirely different experience back when the wall was first erected than it is
now. Today we can look back and say how
terrible and sad it was, but can never really feel what the people who lived
through it felt.
Today people just look back and
remember and feel sad and resentful about what happened. We have talked a little with our host family
about the wall and the divide between east and west. They said living in the west their side got
very little money to help with rebuilding because all the money was going to
the east; maybe some resentment still towards the east. Sometimes they talk about how the government
is a little bit of a joke.
Some Photos :)
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| Monument |
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| Guard tower in the strip of death... |
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| This one had to do with the burning of books :( Sad... |
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