Alternative Wall Construction

Interview with T.H.E. Hill, Author of The Day Before the Berlin Wall: Could We ...

Hill: When I was stationed in Berlin in the mid-1970s, there was a "legend" that I heard again and again. According to this legend, we had advance knowledge of the plan to build the Wall, and not only that, but we knew that the East Germans had been instructed to halt construction if we were to take aggressive action to prevent them from putting up the wall. That idea had a particularly strong impact on me, because I was living inside the bounds of the Berlin Wall at the time I heard it. That's why the memory of it is still so strong after all these years. The thought that we knew that the East Germans were going to build a wall around West Berlin, and did not do anything about it when we could have has always bothered me, because the Berlin Wall was not just some minor inconvenience. It changed people's lives forever. 136 people were killed while trying to escape across the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. Just tearing down the Berlin Wall doesn't change what it did to millions of people.

In an interview on Amazon, Kempe explains that Kennedy did nothing. He says that his "book builds the best cases to date that Kennedy acquiesced to the border closure and the building of the Wall. The record shows that in many respects he wrote the script that Khrushchev followed - as long as Khrushchev restricted his actions to Soviet-controlled East Berlin and East Germany, Kennedy would accept his actions. Kennedy falsely believed that if East Germany could end its refugee stampede, Khrushchev might become a more willing negotiator on a set of other issues. It was a tragic misreading of the man and of the situation. Berlin paid for it - as did tens of millions of people."

Hill: Everyone remembers Ulbricht's "No one has the intention of building a wall" from that press conference in June 1961. What they forget, however, is what Ulbricht said before that. He said: "As I understand your question, there are people in West Germany who wish that we would mobilize the construction workers of the capital of the GDR for the purpose of erecting a wall. I am not aware of the existence of any such intention. The construction workers of our capital are primarily engaged in the building of housing, and all their efforts are directed toward this goal. No one has the intention of building a wall." Everyone always thought that it was just a propaganda ploy, but now it looks like he might have been telling the truth.

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