The Berlin Wall

Berlin more than any other place was at the forefront of the Cold War, it was considered to be the key to balancing the powers after the World War II. Issue between the two world powers the former Soviet Union and the United States were directly felt by the Berliners. They felt and experienced the power struggle daily, while also trying to recover from the destruction of World War II upon their city. The “Iron Curtain” descended quickly after the war further affecting the already scared and traumatized people of Berlin for forty years.
As a memorial for this time nothing stands out greater than the Berlin Wall itself. It stood like a knife dividing the city, tearing apart families, communities and the city infrastructure that the city had worked so hard on to recreate after the war. Though only small sections of the wall remain as the memorial itself, the wall within the mind of many of the people still remain.
Check Point Charlie is another important memorial to the time. It shows what all a person had to go thorough in order to escape from East Berlin, things often that seemed impossible. The fall of the Berlin wall is such a resent event in German history that few speak of it, it is such a fresh memory because many of the citizens of Berlin experienced it.
The Cold War and the Berlin Wall were mostly political power struggles that left little physical scars, mostly they left mental scars on the people affected the greatest during the time.