We spent three days visiting Berlin, the capital of Germany. This is a very important and historic city! After World War II, in the 1940s, Germany was split into two separate countries, West Germany and East Germany. Berlin was also split into two halves, West Berlin and East Berlin. Many East Germans wanted to go to West Germany, but the East German government in the 1950s built barbed-wire fences and a high wall in the city of Berlin, called the Berlin Wall, to prevent East Germans from leaving the country. Then, in November of 1989, the borders were opened and hundreds of thousands of Germans from both sides were able to meet for the first time in many years! They had a huge celebration in Berlin at the Wall, and used tools to break apart the
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