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In this archive footage you can see how the construction of the Berlin Wall begins on August 13, 1961. In the early morning, armed border police gather and lay barbed wire along the sector borders.
Trees are uprooted on Potsdamer Chaussee and border police tear up the pavement near the Wollankstraße/Nordbahnstraße junction. Passing West Berlin cars are stopped and checked by GDR border police. From one day to the next, people in East and West Berlin are separated from each other.
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