Why was a wall built around West Berlin, but not to separate East Germany from West Germany? Was there not a refugee problem there, as well?

[This message was edited by Sarai on 01-23-04 at 10:40 PM.]

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Originally posted by Sarai:
Why was a wall built around West Berlin, but not to separate East Germany from West Germany? Was there not a refugee problem there, as well?

[This message was edited by Sarai on 01-23-04 at 10:40 PM.]

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They had the usual border conventions of fences, cleared areas and such, but the length of the line would have made a wall, as such, impractical. After all, highways, rail lines, rivers and canals all crossed the border at many places, and there was a considerable east-west trade.

Alan Moore