Witness the dramatic division of Berlin on the morning of August 13th, 1961, as the Berlin Wall emerges overnight, splitting the city in two. As tensions rise throughout the summer of '61, journalist Adam Kellet-Long, stationed in East Berlin, breaks the news to the Western media after receiving a tip-off. Explore the events firsthand and understand how this structure became a defining symbol in European landscape and global politics for three decades.

Witness the dramatic division of Berlin on the morning of August 13th, 1961, as the Berlin Wall emerges overnight, splitting the city in two. As tensions rise throughout the summer of '61, journalist Adam Kellet-Long, stationed in East Berlin, breaks the news to the Western media after receiving a tip-off. Explore the events firsthand and understand how this structure became a defining symbol in European landscape and global politics for three decades.