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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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