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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (77143)	6/16/2016 10:45:00 PM
From: unclewest	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 124696

*Regardless of what they told their people - and actions demonstrated it - more people tried to leave than to get in, right?* If you make a circle and divide it North to South with 1/3 in the East and 2/3rds in the West, you have a divided Berlin. The line down the middle was the Berlin wall. It was erected over years. But the outer perimeter needed to be shut down too or the inner wall would be meaning less. Now imagine about 2.4 million +/- (at that time) people and families who resided in both areas. Then suddenly you begin erecting a wall to divide them. When I got to Berlin there were still many tens or hundreds of thousands of people trying to reunite with family members, sweethearts, etc... The underground family reunification traffic was very large and went both ways - East and West. That continued during the years it took to build the wall till the wall came down. Many make the mistake of thinking the wall just went down the center of Berlin. That was only the smaller part but it got the most press. Eventually the entire outer perimeter of West Berlin was enclosed too. I think I recall the entire wall was something around 106 miles with about 25% +/- the central separation of West and East Berlin which was the concrete and block wall. The rest was the barbed wire outer perimeter of West Berlin and it never did have the same wall that was erected in the inner city. The early shootings along the inner city wall were always reported. The killings around the outer city border began later and were not always reported but they were much less than the attempted inner city crossings. There were lots of people coming and going in both directions. Easterners wanting to go West learned the safest escape was not in the middle of the city. There were other ways to escape, sewer lines, the S-Bahn tunnels, the canals, etc.. I did not do a head count on the movement so I can't answer your question directly.

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