MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · August 13
THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 13
August 13 in history
1961 — The Wall goes up
13 Aug 1961 — Overnight, barbed wire seals the last open door between the blocs; concrete follows. A state walling its own people in ends the Berlin crisis — by admitting everything.
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