East Berlin Wall Destruction

The Berlin Wall did avert a vast number of East Berliners from trying emigrate to the West, but it didn’t prevent everyone, almost over 5,000 people successfully made it to East Berlin safely. Many of the Successful attempts were safe like climbing over the wall; others were dangerous and full of destruction by striking into the wall. Unfortunately, while many of East Berliners made it over without any problems, about 100 to 200 died attempting to get across the wall to West Berlin, trying to regroup with relatives, or trying to seek a better future for their families. The reason for these deaths were because, East German guards were permitted to shoot at anyone who tried to get across without any warning of some sort. One of the most famous