A small section of this wall is preserved today in Hötensleben as a memorial to the death zone created between the free state in the West and the communist prison state in the East.
The Soviets’ Inner Wall, One of the Deadliest Border Walls in History
…'from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended over Europe' – speech made by Winston Churchill in 1946 in Fulton, Missouri
At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Germany from 1945 to 1949 into four sections, each administered by a different allied country, in order to prevent the spread of Nazism (National Socialism).
The Americans, the French, and the British did not take as seriously as the Soviets did the virtual division line between their controlled territories and those controlled by the Soviet Union. People from the western and eastern parts came and went as they pleased, crossing this imaginary border and angering the Soviets who were very partial to their communist ideology and boundaries in the process.