Brian Ladd The Ghost Of Berlin Wall Analysis

The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian Ladd examines the past political controversies and recounts Berlin’s troubled history. The value of this source is that there is meaningful information about the impacts on Berlin and the world after the war. He examines the decisions that were made to erect the Berlin Wall and the ramification of those decisions. A limitation of this source is that it was written in 1997, 36 years after the wall was built, political views changed, and it focused on architectural issues thus relevant information was limited.
Investigation
The Berlin Wall was a structure that was virtually built overnight in Germany in 1961 separating East and West Berlin causing shock among the citizens. The main points argued by my sources as to what led to the construction of the Belin Wall include the events such as refugee overflow, Germany recovering from the Second World War, and
He states that both sides of Berlin were equally poor and there was the same quality of life in both East and West Berlin due to the poverty in the 1950’s. German citizens were rebuilding their government and their public community. The Third Reich ended and the idea of communism entered the East German’s minds. The different mindsets of East and West Berliners created a competition where both sides planned the future of the city out as if it was still one whole entity. The difference in ideology helped justify the idea of the blockade. Once the barrier was built, it was easier for East Berlin to cleanse themselves of the old ideology and to begin living in their sector under their communist like government. Both sides of the wall turned their half of Berlin into a functioning society with a separate government as well as any of the public services existing at the time of the