The destruction of the berlin wall in 1989 illustrated the larger trend of widespread panic and hysteria in europe fascism’s tightening grip the collapse of communism in eastern europe anti-german backlash from hitler’s actions during world war ii

The destruction of the berlin wall in 1989 illustrated the large trend of the collapse of communism in eastern europe. before the berlin wall, germany was divided into a capitalist western part and a communist eastern part. the people inwestern germany were living significantly better than the people in eastern germany, and although eastern germany was not bad by european standards, it paled in comparison to its western european counterparts. citizens demolished the wall until the eastern german military started dismantling the wall.