Walled In – How Germany was Divided

This video, which shows through animation the border that seperated East and West Germany, as well as East and West Berlin, was made by Deutsche Welle. With so little of the Berlin Wall remaining, it is sometimes difficult to imagine what was involved and the extent of the construction necessary, and this video provides an excellent illustration. If you are coming to Berlin, it is well worth going up to the Berlin Wall Documentation Centre on Bernauer Strasse, which has an interesting exhibit as well as a short stretch of the fortifications maintained to give you a sense of what the Berlin Wall actually looked like.