LARGE CONCRETE SLABS, designed to discourage drivers from making a break for West Berlin, set the scene as high-ranking East Berlin police officers confer on the sector border at Wilhemstrasse, where they inspected building progress of the Communists’ wall. The East Berlin authorities began reinforcing the wall with the slabs after vehicles had crashed through it to the freedom of West Berlin. MajorGeneral Fritz Eikemeier, the East Berlin police chief, is second from left in the group.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29623, 20 September 1961, Page 22
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77LARGE CONCRETE SLABS, designed to discourage drivers from making a break for West Berlin, set the scene as high-ranking East Berlin police officers confer on the sector border at Wilhemstrasse, where they inspected building progress of the Communists’ wall. The East Berlin authorities began reinforcing the wall with the slabs after vehicles had crashed through it to the freedom of West Berlin. Major-General Fritz Eikemeier, the East Berlin police chief, is second from left in the group. Press, Volume C, Issue 29623, 20 September 1961, Page 22
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