Berliner Mauer

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historic_building
border barrier
gptkbp:builtBy gptkb:German_Democratic_Republic
gptkbp:casualties at least 140 people died trying to cross
gptkbp:category Cold War history
Tourist attraction in Berlin
20th-century fortifications
gptkbp:constructionStartYear 13 August 1961
gptkbp:country gptkb:Germany
gptkbp:demolished 9 November 1989
gptkbp:famousSpeech Ich bin ein Berliner
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Berliner Mauer
gptkbp:length about 155 km
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Berlin
gptkbp:material concrete
barbed wire
guard towers
gptkbp:memorial gptkb:Berlin_Wall_Memorial
gptkbp:notableCheckpoint gptkb:Bornholmer_Straße
gptkb:Checkpoint_Charlie
gptkb:Glienicker_Brücke
gptkbp:protectedBy gptkb:East_German_border_guards
gptkbp:purpose to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Allied_occupation_zones_in_Germany
gptkb:Erich_Honecker
gptkb:France
gptkb:Mikhail_Gorbachev
gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkb:Ronald_Reagan
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkb:Stasi
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
gptkb:Walter_Ulbricht
gptkb:Inner_German_border
gptkb:Iron_Curtain
gptkbp:remnants gptkb:Potsdamer_Platz
gptkb:East_Side_Gallery
gptkb:Bernauer_Straße
gptkbp:separates gptkb:East_Berlin
gptkb:West_Berlin
gptkbp:significantEvent gptkb:Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall
9 November 1989
gptkbp:symbol gptkb:Cold_War
division of Germany
gptkbp:UNESCOStatus gptkb:list
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Wiener_Absichtserklärung
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5