It not only ran through the centre of Berlin, but also wrapped around West Berlin, cutting it off from East Germany. The Berlin Wall had watch-towers, anti-tank devices, ditches, barbed wire ...
Columns of tanks rumbled alongside the autobahn ... for ensuring freedom of access to West Berlin. In a last-minute effort to avert a crisis, West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger summoned Soviet ...
In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping ... He was proved right as Kennedy pulled American tanks in Germany back from a confrontation.
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