Item COLD WAR 26/7 - Transcript of interview with BBC journalist Charles Wheeler, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Charles Wheeler, BBC German Service correspondent, 1950-1953, relating to the Stalinist regime in East Berlin, Germany, 1950-1953; industrial unrest in East Berlin, Jun 1953; the East Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953; the contrast in the standard of living between the populations of West and East Berlin, 1953; the refugee crisis in West Berlin caused by the influx of Germans escaping from the German Democratic Republic, 1951-1953; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956; the Suez crisis, 1956; the death of Peter Fechter, killed in an attempt to cross into West Berlin, 1961; the visit of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to West Berlin, Jun 1963. 24pp