On 13 August 1961, work began on what was to become the Berlin - TopicsExpress



          

On 13 August 1961, work began on what was to become the Berlin Wall, only two months after Walter Ulbricht had emphatically denied that there were such plans (Nobody has the intention of building a wall), and mentioned therewith for the very first time the phrase wall. Ulbricht had sent out GDR soldiers and police to seal the border with West Berlin overnight. The mobilization included 8,200 members of the People’s Police, 3,700 members of the mobile police, 12,000 factory militia members, and 4,500 State Security officers. Ulbricht also dispersed 40,000 East German soldiers across the country to suppress any potential protests.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:33:09 +0000

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