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The Big Picture - The West Berlin Struggle

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Channel: US National Archives · 2010 · Education

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On August 13, 1961, East Berlin soldiers began to build the Berlin Wall from brick and barbed wire. The Wall separated the Soviet-controlled Eastern half of the city from the democratically run Western half of the city. This clip from a "Big Picture" episode gives some history of the city from before the Wall was built. For more information about this video clip, visit   http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalDOSearch?searchExpression=2569836

The original release sheet reads:
In West Berlin, a new skyline has risen from the rubble of World War II. A dynamic, prosperous city, West Berlin lies one hundred miles into Soviet controlled East Germany--an outpost of freedom in a jungle of Communist slavery. In West Berlin's struggle to remain free--indeed, the Free World's struggle--lies this week's dramatic story.

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Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center.
(ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984 )

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