Effects Of Divide Berlin Wall
International A Wall Divides Berlin
“Today the endangered frontier of freedom runs through divided Berlin.” President Kennedy, on July 22, 1961, three weeks before the Berlin Wall was erected. A grim convoy of tanks and troops wound through eastern Berlin in the predawn hours of August 13, 1961. By sunrise, East German soldiers had stretched barbed wire across the city, cutting off the Communist sector from the capitalist. The wire was soon replaced by a network of concrete walls and electrified fences, guarded by armed men, dogs, and minefields, a 30-mile-long barrier separating German from German. Churchill’s Iron Curtain metaphor had become reality. Ostensibly built to keep out saboteurs and subversives, the Berlin Wall was
“Today the endangered frontier of freedom runs through divided Berlin.” President Kennedy, on July 22, 1961, three weeks before the Berlin Wall was erected. A grim convoy of tanks and troops wound through eastern Berlin in the predawn hours of August 13, 1961. By sunrise, East German soldiers had stretched barbed wire across the city, cutting off the Communist sector from the capitalist. The wire was soon replaced by a network of concrete walls and electrified fences, guarded by armed men, dogs, and minefields, a 30-mile-long barrier separating German from German. Churchill’s Iron Curtain metaphor had become reality. Ostensibly built to keep out saboteurs and subversives, the Berlin Wall was