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Berlin Wall

The Order has signed

Saturday Aug 12, 1961
East Germany, Germany

On Saturday, 12 August 1961, the leaders of the GDR attended a garden party at a government guesthouse in Döllnsee, in a wooded area to the north of East Berlin. There, Ulbricht signed the order to close the border and erect a wall.


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