Mauerjahre - Leben im geteilten Berlin 1962 (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Documentary

Mauerjahre - Leben im geteilten Berlin

1962 (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV Episode | Documentary

In West Berlin people hope that Kennedy will negotiate with Krushchev on tearing down the wall. In East Berlin the wall is called the antifascist protection wall, and the soldiers guarding it are seen as heroes of peace. The conflict ...See moreIn West Berlin people hope that Kennedy will negotiate with Krushchev on tearing down the wall. In East Berlin the wall is called the antifascist protection wall, and the soldiers guarding it are seen as heroes of peace. The conflict between East and West is conceived as a class conflict. As this might lead to a new war, East Germany sets up a National Service, although the intention had been never to militarize Germany again. At the first anniversary of the wall, 13 August 1962, more than 20 persons have already been killed, while trying to flee East Berlin. People all over West Berlin observe three minutes' silence for the victims. Four days later 18-year-old Peter Fechter is shot by wall guards, while trying to flee to West Berlin. He lays mortally wounded, shouting for help, but nobody helps him. In July East Germany opens a modern airport at Berlin Schönefeld, but not many of its citizens are allowed to leave the country. In October the Cuba crisis generates panic in West Berlin, as many of its citizens believe that America now will avoid the Berlin conflict, and West Berlin become incorporated in East Germany. Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se} See less

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Name	Known for
Till Hagen Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Lego Jurassic World (2015)
Arno Kiehl Self Self See fewer	Mauerjahre - Leben im geteilten Berlin (2011)
Walter Ulbricht Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Prazdnik nashey molodosti (1955)
Heinrich Lübke Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Die königlichen Gäste - Berichte vom Deutschland-Besuch der britischen Königin Elizabeth II. und von Prinz Philip, Herzog von Edinburgh (1965)
Cornelia Froboess Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mathilde Möhring (1968)
Horst Materna Self Self See fewer	Die schwersten Unglücke der DDR (2016)
Margit Hosseini Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Willy Brandt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Interview mit Berlin (1959)
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Nikita Khrushchev Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	This Hour Has Seven Days (1964)