The Berlin sector border is sealed

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1. Story
2. Overnight on 12–13 August 1961, East German forces closed the sector boundary in Berlin with barbed wire and began building a permanent barrier, ending the last open crossing point between the two systems in Europe. The immediate driver was emigration: the loss of population through Berlin had reached a rate the East German state could not sustain. The western powers protested and did not intervene, having concluded that their essential interests were access to and the freedom of West Berlin rather than free movement across the city, and those were not being challenged.
3. Knowledge
4. The Berlin Wall
5. The Berlin sector border is sealed
6. Berlin
7. Connections
8. The Berlin Wall
9. Berlin
10. Berlin
11. Checkpoint Charlie
12. The Bornholmer Strasse crossing
13. The Berlin sector border is sealed
14. The Berlin Wall opens
15. The Berlin Wall
16. Tempelhof Airport
17. The Berlin blockade and airlift
18. The Berlin sector border is sealed
19. American and Soviet tanks face each other on Friedrichstrasse
20. The Berlin Wall opens
21. Berlin Marathon
22. The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald
23. Berlin moves its marathon into the city
24. The Berlin Marathon runs through the Brandenburg Gate
25. Evidence
26. Named as the standard research documentation for the Berlin Wall, the events of 9 November 1989 and the contested count of deaths at the Wall. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted. This pack therefore states the death toll as a disputed range attributed to differing counting criteria rather than as a figure, and treats the timing of the Bornholmer Strasse opening as unchecked.