On this Day 13th August 1961

The GDR Council of Ministers announced on August 12th 1961, that. “in order to put a stop to the hostile activities of the West , the GDR needed to protect its citizen’s.” In the early hours of August 13th the construction of the Berlin Wall began. 2.7 Million people had left the GDR between 1949 and 1961. In 1961 alone over 200 000 people had left. Most of them young