On the Berlin sector in Bernauer Strasse, engineer units of the GDR border troops begin to remove the ruins of apartment-house façades that still form the wall here. They replace them with the "Border Wall 75", which consists of pre-fabricated concrete segments 3.60 metres in height.
Construction of a new wall with pre-fabricated elements on Bernauer Strasse (taken 7 July 1980) (Photo: Polizeihistorische Sammlung/Der Polizeipräsident in Berlin)
4-6 March
1980
In the United States, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt meets with US President Jimmy Carter.
