what was the purpose of the berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a Symbol, a Symbol of. â an unworkable System. â economic decline. â surveillance and oppression. â totalitarianism. Its rise and fall represents an important Chapter. in the political history of the world. At the end of World War 2 in 1945, Germany was divided into four administrative sectors, one. for each of the three victorious combatants, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, and. one for France. Berlin, as capital city, was itself divided similarly into four sectors.