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Events on Sunday 13 August 1961 2
1961Berlin Wall ErectionDivision of BerlinA wall built by the GDR to separate East and West Berlin, becoming a global symbol of the Iron Curtain.
1961Construction of the Berlin Wall beginsEast Germany seals the border between East and West BerlinEast German authorities began erecting a barbed-wire and concrete barrier dividing East and West Berlin to halt the mass exodus of citizens to the West. The wall became the defining physical symbol of the Cold War division of Europe for the next twenty-eight years.