Was the Berlin Wall just in the city or was there a wall that separated East and West Germany?

It went right across the continent and continued along the Czechoslovakian border, the Romanian and Hungarian borders and wholly isolated the Warsaw Pact countries from the rest of Europe.

@Yun is wholly misinformed.

It was a wall, a mined and ploughed death strip, a fence with antipersonnel claymores which would be triggered by anybody reaching the fence, a series of huge watchtowers containing snipers, a road constantly patrolled by armoured personnel carriers, and nobody under the age of about 70 was allowed to live within 5 miles of it. It was 600 miles long in the German section alone.

Where he has got the idea that there was no wall I cannot imagine.

The Berlin Wall separated East from West Berlin. East and West Germany, that is the Deutsche Democratic Republic (East) and the Deutsche Federal Republic (West) were separated not by a wall like in Berlin but by armed guards patrolling just inside the border, with watch towers and minefields all along the whole East/West German border.

Something known as the Inner German Border,which stretched from the Baltic coast to the border with Czechoslovakia kept East Germans not in Berlin.from freely escaping to West Germany.

The Inner German Border consisted of an unbroken system of fences,walls,barbed wire,booby traps,wide ditches that prevented vehicles getting across,minefields,and watchtowers.It was manned by 50,000 East German troops,and was put in place 1 July 1945,so long before the Berlin Wall was built.

the comprehensive border grew to become into as quickly as guarded. maximum people do no longer understand that Berlin isn't on the border between east and west. that is is in the middle of what grew to become into as quickly as East germany. The wall grew to become into between East and west berlin, dividing the city suggestions-blowing around the conventional streets. in case you seem at a map you will see why many persons used the path into west berlin. there's a museum at Checkpoint Charlie that shows how people tried to flee.

No, there was not a "wall" that separated the whole country. The Berlin Wall actually cut off West Berlin from East Germany too, and not just East Berlin, since Berlin is inside of the eastern portion of Germany.

The thing is that since the West Germans and their Capitalist allies and the East Germans with their Communist allies were in a state of "cold war," that both sides watched the line between the two, so that it was hard for people to get over to the other side.

So, there was no "wall" in the way, but you would have to cross the countryside through patrols, defenses, and military camps to even get to that line to cross over. Berlin was far easier to get out because you had less layers of defenses to get through.

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all of the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe: Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I might call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence, but to very high, and in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow."

Winston Churchill

As was said, it was a cleared line almost 700 miles long, mined, barbed wire, watchtowers and guards that shot to kill from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic and tuned Eastern Europe into a vast prison camp for two generations.It was known as the Iron Curtain.

It was to seperate west from East of the town. not the country.