The Berlin Wall, Hiding Shame

On June 15, 1961, Walter Ulbricht, the communist leader of East Germany (officially known as the German Democratic Republic) held a press conference in East Berlin to promote a cause he had long advocated: the signing of a treaty between the Soviet Union and Ulbricht German Democratic Republic (GDR) to the East German government would control all land and air routes to Berlin, which would then, in terms of Ulbricht, a "city Free. " As Frederick Taylor noted in The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989, Ulbricht aid "out of their way to invite the Western press."

A reporter for a German newspaper West asked: "Is the formation of a free city, in your opinion means that the state border will be erected at the Brandenburg Gate?" Ulbricht response was strangely revealing:

I understand from your question that there are men in West Germany who wish that we mobilize the construction workers of the GDR to build a wall. I do not know of such an intention. The construction workers of our country are mainly engaged in building the house and their strength is totally consumed by this task.Nobody intends to build a wall.

Person at the press conference had mentioned a wall. So why do Ulbricht words "intends to build a wall," something he attributed to a desire on the part of "men in West Germany"? Since the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had not yet given the green light to plans Ulbricht to seal the border between East and West Berlin, the Middle German Chancellor may have been trying to force the hand of the Kremlin, so that it can stop the bleeding of East Germans in the West.Refugee problem in East Germany had its roots in the end of World War II, when Germany was defeated in the administration of the four victorious powers, the United States, Britain and France occupy their respective sectors, to the west and the Soviet Union in charge of the eastern sector, comprising approximately one third of the nation. Berlin, German capital, while located 115 miles inside the Soviet zone, was also divided into four sectors, with the Soviets occupying the eastern half of the city.

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