The Berlin Wall | A city divided between East and West by the Cold War
The Chink in the Wall
A Christmas truce for the people of Cold War Berlin.
CHANNEL | Home Service
FIRST BROADCAST | 31 December 1963
DURATION | 28 minutes 52 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1963
Synopsis
Two years after the construction of the barrier between East and West Berlin, special permission was granted for visits by Westerners to the East for a period of five days over Christmas. In this programme, people - some of whom hadn't seen their loved-ones since the rapid construction of the wall in 1961 - describe what these visits mean to them, what life was like before the wall went up and the arduous process they had to go through to obtain visitors' permits.
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Associated subjects
Berlin | Cold War | Communism | Germany | World War II
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