“While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.”
John F. Kennedy
Ich bin ein Berliner speech (Primary source)
On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a brief address from a platform outside Rathaus Schöneberg, the city hall of West Berlin, before a crowd estimated at several hundred thousand. The speech came during a European tour and roughly twenty-two months after East Germany had begun construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.
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