Milestone - The Fifty-Year Anniversary Of The Building Of The Berlin Wall | People & Politics
- 13 years ago
The construction start on the Berlin Wall on August 13,1961 divided Germany and turned lives upside down. Joachim Rudolph was a student who lived in the eastern sector. He wanted to see the world, but the Berlin Wall destroyed his dreams of a career abroad. Over in the west, Klaus Köppen found himself separated from his fiancée on the other side. People& Politics looks at how they took fate into their own hands.