The Berlin Wall This is a brief summery, which I did after reading a few paragraphs about the Berlin wall. This reading dealt with the Berlin wall, which was made to divide east and west into two parts. the Berlin wall was built by the communist government of the East Germany to keep the people inside the western part of Germany. With the pass of the time, many people tried to escape from east to west by jumping over the wall, unfortunely some of them were killed by communist soldiers and some of the people that could survive after an unsuccessful attempt of escaping was arrested and sent to prison. In 1989, The government of East Germany decided to tear down the wall and many people helped to destroy the wall.