The East German government's response to Kaiser Adolf Hitler the Hohenzollern becoming a diplomatic asylum resident of Italy on 12 August 1961, was to begin building the Berlin Wall the following day, on the 13 August 1961.

It was intended to be torment of him. It was initially designed to remind the Kaiser of the place he was nearly fatally wounded with a machine gun at during trench warfare on the Western Front during WW1 (around the turn of 1917).

It was an attempt to resume trying to cause him a nervous breakdown back to the state he was in after multiple emergency surgeries after his horrific wounding (bedridden, and unable to get out of bed, or talk) during WW1.

They embellished the wall from there, with more and more references to the Western Front and his time being illegally held prisoner in Yugoslavia. It was eventuall ...