In the Mauer Museum there are many stories of how people escaped to the West. I took this photo on a visit there 2007.
Some more facts about the Berlin Wall:
- Overall length: 155 km
- Through the city centre: 43.1 km
- Through residential areas: 37 km
- Through industrial areas: 17 km
- Through woodlands and forests: 30 km
- Through rivers and lakes: 24 km
- On railway embankments, fields, moors: 54 km
- Concrete segment wall (4 m high): 107.3 km
- Metal fence (3 to 4 m high): 65.3 km
- Number of watch towers: 300
- Number of bunkers: 22
- Anti-tank obstacles (5 m deep): 0,9 km
- Anti-vehicle trench: 105.5 km
- Contact or signal fence: 127.5 km
- Concrete road (6.7 m wide): 124 km
- The Wall dissected: 8 train lines, 4 underground lines, 193 major and minor roads
(Source: The Berlin Wall/Peter Feist)
