The wall in Berlin is unique. its object is to prevent the men and women behind it from reaching freedom. Between 1946 and August 13. 1961. 4 million East Germans "voted with their feet" to breathe the free air of the West. In doing so they exercised one of the guarantees embodied in the constitution of the socalled German Democratic Republic: "Every citizen is entitled to emigrate"-article 10. section 3. They chose to live in the West. where they are free to determine the course of their lives and those of their children. where political liberty is a living reality. where economic wellbeing. in professions and occupations freely chosen and pursued. is a fact. where the basic human rights are guaranteed and respected by a democratically constituted West German Government. Before the prison wall was erected to prevent their escape from East Germany. the East German people chose to leave this puppet state in such numbers that the Sovietoccupied areas of Germany were the only territory in Europe. if not in the whole world. showing a constant decrease in population.
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