For 28 years until its collapse on Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was the epicentre of the Cold War, splitting Berlin in two and dividing a nation with two million tons of concrete, 700,000 tons of steel, attack dogs, tank traps, death strips and tripwires. From the very first day it went up, anyone who tried to escape risked betrayal, prison, or death.
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