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The Berlin Crisis of 1961 (German: Berlin-Krise) was the last major European political and military incident of the Cold War concerning the status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.
The political history of East Germany had four periods: [80] 1949–1961, which saw the building of socialism; 1961–1970, after the Berlin Wall closed off escape, was a period of stability and consolidation; 1971–1985 was termed the "Honecker Era", and saw closer ties with West Germany; and 1985–1990 saw the decline and extinction of East ...
In just two weeks, the most important symbol of the Cold War divided the most turbulent city of the 20th Century into two occupation zones: West and East Germany. 17 September - West German federal election, 1961
These East Germans flooded the West German embassy and refused to return to East Germany. [126] East German border guard at Berlin Wall, July 1988. The East German government responded by disallowing any further travel to Hungary but allowed those already there to return to East Germany. [127] This triggered similar events in neighboring ...
The politics of economic decline in East Germany, 1945–1989 (U of North Carolina Press, 2000). Long, Andrew. Berlin in the Cold War: Volume 2: The Berlin Wall 1959–1961 (2021) Major, Patrick, and Jonathan Osmond, eds. The workers' and peasants' state: communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945–71 ( Manchester UP, 2002 ...
In August 1961, the East German Government tried to stop the population exodus by separating West Berlin by the Berlin Wall. It was very dangerous for fleeing residents to cross because armed soldiers were trained to shoot illegal emigrants. [3] East Germany was a socialist republic. Eventually, Christian churches were allowed to operate ...
On 13 October 1961, Westfälische Rundschau journalist Kurt Lichtenstein was shot on the border near the village of Zicherie after he attempted to speak with East German farm workers. His death aroused condemnation across the political spectrum in West Germany; he was a former parliamentary representative of the German Communist Party. [ 36 ]
Ulbricht feared that hopes for a democratic government or a reunification with West Germany would cause unrest among East German citizens, who since 1961 appeared to have come to terms with social and living conditions. In the late 1960s, Ulbricht made the Council of State as main governmental organ.