In effect yes. The Berlin Wall consisted of a series of obstacles including alarmed chain link fences, high concrete walls, tank traps, mined strips, trip-wire operated guns, dog runs, manned watch towers and ditches.
The name pretty well defined itself- like the Great Wall of China ( sometimes abbreviated as the China Wall)- the wall went through Berlin on the East-West axis- can"t call it a fort ( Festung) or...
The Berlin wall split Germany into two parts, East and West, the East was controlled by the Communists and the west by the Democratic party of Germany, so when the wall was torn down in 1989, Germany...