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Open this photo in gallery Monica Guenter, a professional musician and teacher, plays the viola on

Just before the construction of the Berlin Wall began 60 years ago, Walter Ulbricht, the former leader of East Germany, famously claimed:" nobody has any intention of building a wall". Rumours had spread that East Berlin would close its border, but Ulbricht played down the issued at a June 1961 press conference. When a West German journalist asked whether he believed creating a" free city" required the construction of a state border, Ulbricht said no one planned to build a wall. For some, his wo