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    • 14-27 October

      1962

      The Cuba Crisis. US President John F. Kennedy manages to halt preparations to station Soviet medium-range missiles on Cuba by threatening to use nuclear weapons.
      RIAS, statement by the Ruling Mayor, Willy Brandt, on the Cuba Crisis (recording), 25 October 1962 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Die Zeit im Funk)

    • 24 October

      1962

      While visiting the Wall, the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, states: "I should like to clearly emphasise that the protective wall outstandingly serves the interests of the GDR and peace. I don’t say that the imperialists like this, but they already respect it. more

    • 26/27 October

      1962

      The "Spiegel Affair" begins: police search the premises of the Hamburg news magazine "Der Spiegel". In the issue 41/62 of 10 October 1962, the "Spiegel" had reported on the NATO manoeuvre "Fallex 62"; the editor Rudolf Augstein and other journalists involved are temporarily arrested on suspicion of treason.

    • October 1962

      "The Cuban Crisis in the month of October had little effect on the activities of police and riot squad. Alerts issued by way of precaution were able to be cancelled after a short time," the West Berlin police write in their monthly report on developments at the sector and zone border. Report by the West Berlin police on the situation on the sector and zone border, incidents on suburban and East German Reichsbahn (Reich Railway) premises and other events of political significance for the month October 1962 (in German)
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