Word: schonefeld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thin welcoming crowd was not exactly eager to make him an honorary citizen. Minutes before Khrushchev's turboprop landed at Schonefeld Airport, an announcer drilled the spectators in a proper greeting: "Now, when our friend steps out of his plane, we will all cheer in unison, hip, hip, hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching...
Though the Wall itself ends in the U.S. sector, at East Germany's Schonefeld airport, watchtowers and barbed-wire barriers also seal the city's 65-mile western border with the Soviet zone. And that does not count the 830-mile Marxist Maginot line that seals East Germany's western frontier from the Baltic to Czechoslovakia. This is what Walter Ulbricht cynically calls the Democratic Anti-Fascist Protection Wall; already it boasts 500 watchtowers, 1,000 fortified bunkers, 93 miles of minefields, and throughout its length, the wide, plowed strips of earth where a footprint...