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What was the Berlin Wall like
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It was a 13-foot-high concrete wall that snaked through Berlin, effectively sealing off West Berlin from ground access except for through heavily guarded checkpoints. It included guard towers and a wide area known as the "death strip" that contained anti-vehicle trenches, barbed wire, and other defenses. The wall came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
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