East Germany Closes Border

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Updated: 05-Dec-09
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The attention of an anxious world is focused on East and West Germany and Berlin. The last great exodus of refugees from the East is processed in the Marianfelde Center as the Communist German regime moves to close their border against further flights. Troops swoop down on the border between Red Berlin and the Free City in the pre-dawn hours and construct a barbed wire barrier between the sectors. East Berliners were told to give up their jobs in the West and Mayor Willy Brandt called on all Berliners to keep calm and avoid provoking Soviet troops who took up their positions with East German soldiers.