Content

Introduction
Words of Greeting

Part 1
The Diplomacy of the
Berlin Crisis
The Four-Power City as a
Tinderbox
Khrushchev’s Ultimatum
Western Responses
Berlin as a Free City?
Why Are You in Berlin?
The Western Powers under Pressure
The Scandal of the Shooting Down of the U-2
Encounter with Madame Rosier
Summit Diplomacy and Political Cartoons
Changeover at the White House
A Cold War Election Campaign
The 1961 Vienna Summit
It‘s going to be a cold winter
Survival in an Emergency
Nobody intends to build a wall.
The Soviet Union Decides on the Wall
What did the West Know?
The First Step towards the West
1961 Election Campaign for the Bundestag

Part 2
The Division of Berlin
August 13, 1961
A GI as an eyewitness
The Reaction of the City Commandants
Te West Is Doing Nothing!
The USA’s Symbolic Politics
The Protecting Powers in Action
Lucius D. Clay in Berlin
Nothing Is Like It Was Before
Longing for Freedom
The Studio at the Barbed Wire

Propaganda from the Air
It Struck 13
The Spy Who Came in from the
Cold
Billy Wilder’s Film “One, Two, Three”
Painters and the Wall
Tension at Checkpoint Charlie
Is the Cold War Getting Hot?
Tourists Discover the Wall
One Year Later
Under Fire in the Death Strip

Part 3
On the Verge of Nuclear War
War over Berlin
The Military Liaison Missions
Maneuvers of the Military Alliances
U.S. Matador Cruise Missile
The Fourth Nuclear Power
In the Radius of Destruction
Everyone Has a Chance
Military Conscription and Alternative Service
Fight Nuclear Death
From Berlin to Cuba
On the Verge of a Hot War
Ich bin ein Berliner
Sources of illustrations