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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1961
Page
8
A stark account of West Berlin’s Wall experience with harrowing details of guard towers, barbed wire, and concrete barricades. The piece notes civilians peering from apartments, families separated by the border, and the grim daily reality of life under division. It emphasizes the emotional weight of witnessing a city split by concrete and fear.
Eyewitness notes empty apartments filled by trusted party functionaries while wary West Berliners line at Heinitz Strasse crossing into the fast sector. A sound truck blasts near barbed wires as helmeted police monitor tense crowds and a voice denounces Ulbricht’s wall as a separation from fellow Germans.
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