Why didn't the Germans just go around the Berlin wall?

Berlin was surrounded by soviet territory on all sides

little yellow bit is west Berlin. obviously the red is soviet territory.
why do you think they didn't go around?

They could of walked around the wall

Why didnt they just walk from East Germany to West Germany then? that sounds a lot easier than trying to scale a wall surrounded with watch towers and wire and shit

Believe it or not they had BUILD WALL on the whole border

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border

Trigger sensored guns, mines, K9 and jeep patrols, plus any number of traps and other obstacles around a fence.

They could of walked around the border

no? thee border was protected, if they tried to leave they would be faced with soviets on every side, and would be shot

Ok but they could of walked around the country to leave

Why didn't they jump over the wall tho

Why didn't they just do pic related?
The migrants are doing it only in reverse

hmm.....

>Kretschmann was born in Dessau, East Germany, on 8 September 1962. Before he became an actor, Kretschmann trained to become an Olympic swimmer. At the age of 19, he fled East Germany and began a month-long trek to West Germany to escape the East German state. During this trek, part of his finger was lost but surgically reattached. Kretschmann crossed four borders (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria) with nothing other than his passport and the equivalent of $100 in his possession.[1]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kretschmann

I don't fucking get it
If West Berlin is so deep within Soviet territory how is it so different anyway?

If Communism is so great, why did they go to lengths to keep people in?

The wall didn't just go through Berlin, it encircled West Berlin entirely.

I only realized this in the last few years because the implication in every piece of media about the Berlin Wall was that it cross-cut Berlin. When I was a little kid I actually thought it was EAST Berlin that had the wall around it, not West Berlin.

Because that wasn't communism

They did!
there were guys swimming/surfing from the east to the west/denmark through the baltic sea

>What is the Iron Curtain

Why didn't East Germans just travel west and go through the other border to West Germany? The bigger border is like 50 times longer and from what I know not as well defended. Surely there has to be one weak point in a massive wall like that.

youtube.com/watch?v=dOP0HQUTSo0

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Why didn't the mongols just go around the chinese wall?

that's exactly what they did. Except for the african route.

If only they had a Zukhoov to help them with that....

because it was easier to go to Czechoslovakia and cross there where the border was the weakest

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sławomir_Rawicz

>be polish prisoner of war in a Soviet gulag set inside the Arctic circle
>wish to return home
>escape in the middle of a blizzard
>the people that escape with you are a ragtag group of three Polish soldiers, a Latvian landowner, a Lithuanian architect, and an enigmatic US metro engineer called "Mr. Smith"; they were later joined by a 17-year-old Polish girl, Kristina
>cross the Gobi desert where two of them die, and cross the Himalayas where another two perish
>fight Yetis in the mountains because why not
>arrive in India and celebrate

Was he the original "hurr durr, go the other way around" guy?

>In 2006 the BBC released a report based on former Soviet records, including statements written by Rawicz himself, showing that Rawicz had been released as part of the 1942 general amnesty of Poles in the USSR and subsequently transported across the Caspian Sea to a refugee camp in Iran, and that his escape to India never occurred.[1]

Too good to be true

Why didn’t Frodo use Gandalf’s eagles to reach Mt.Doom faster?

Aw shame.

At least there was a pretty movie to come out of it.