1961 Newsreel 'East Germany closes its border to the West'

East Germany Closes Its Border To The West The attention of an anxious world is focused on East and West Germany and Berlin during the Cold War. The last great exodus of refugees from East Germany is processed at the Marienfelde Refugee Transit Camp as the Communist German regime moves to close its border against further flights of East Germans to West Germany in August 1961. Troops swooped down on the border between East Berlin and West Berlin in the pre-dawn hours to close routes between the sectors. Initial construction of the Berlin Wall. East German soldiers begin erecting a äóìBerlin Walläó of barbwire. East Berliners are told to give up their jobs in the West and Mayor Willy Brandt called on all Berliners to keep calm and avoid provoking Soviet Troops who took up positions along side their East German counterparts. Black part at end.