This 1960s film titled “Barricade” protests the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. It shows the construction of the Wall in stages, starting with the initial temporary fence, a proper brick wall, and finally a reinforced wall with the Death Strip. The theme running through the film is people’s yearning for freedom, with footage of people escaping at each stage of constructions. It ends with a homage to the victims of the Wall, showing memorial services held for them. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961.

0:07 overview of the death strip at the Berlin Wall, a no-man’s land filled with tank traps and barbed wire, 0:26 two East Berlin Border Guards on patrol, 0:48 footage and stills of different people being emotional by the Wall and waving and communicating with people on the other side, 1:52 a cross in the ground labelled “We are all Germans”, 1:58 people waving at each other interjected with footage of border guards, 2:13 a funeral ceremony and protest by the Wall, 2:46 Title “Barrikade”, 2:54 people watching as the Eastern German Military begins constructing the Wall, 3:38 East German soldiers observing the construction of a preliminary border fence, 4:04 East Germans jumping over the fence, 4:41 Nikita Khrushchev giving a speech, 4:45 soldiers erecting barricades at night, 4:48 start of construction of the proper wall, 5:16 the wall at Bernauer Strasse, 5:33 an East Berliner throwing their belongings out of a window and jumping out, 5:56 East Berliner trying to jump out while soldiers are trying to pull her back in, 6:22 tear gas being fired at protestors during a protest, 7:07 Walter Ulbricht giving a speech, 7:16 stills of different people killed after trying to cross the Wall, 7:52 people, including Berlin Mayor Willi Brandt, at the Wall mourning the death of a victim of the Wall, 8:10 footage of the continued fortification of the wall, 8:29 bricks being laid in windows in apartments by the Wall, 9:18 shorts of different East German border guards on duty at the wall, 9:51 East German guards jumping over the fence, 10:12 memorial to Ida Siekmann followed by memorials to others, 10:33 zoom in on the barbed wire on top of the Wall, 10:49 the death strip and other close ups of the Wall, 11:24 the Wall covered in snow during winter, 11:43 West Berliners looking to the other side, 12:02 “Barrikade”

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