On this day in 1961, ITN reporter Tom St. John Barry reported from the Brandenburg Gate, on the western side of the border between East and West Berlin.
Two days before this report, on Sunday 13 August, the people of Berlin had woken up to find the border sealed along the East German side with coils of barbed wire. East German authorities ordered the Kampfgruppen militia group, seen in this report, to man the border while it was reinforced.
Two days after this report, on 17 August, the first concrete elements of the Berlin Wall were put in place.
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1961: Building of the Berlin Wall
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