Do not Walk! Reunification Do not Walk! Reunification is based on the pedestrian signals (Do not Walk) of the former German Democratic Republic. After the German reunification 1990, these signals remaining until today. Even though they differ substantially from the German Guidelines for Traffic Signals, they are very common and tolerated by the German authorities.

++++ Until 1989, the roughly 900-mile-long inner-German border fortifications were used to prevent residents of the German Democratic Republic from leaving for the West.

The data on the number of victims varies greatly. More than 600 people were shot by GDR border patrols between 1961 and 1989 or died while trying to escape. Only at the Berlin Wall were at least 140 people killed trying to escape. ++++