CSPAN3 Reel America Let Us Live - 1953 December 26, 2017
The soviet zone. Since 1945, the German Federal republic has granted political acsylum to more than nine millin refugees, expellees and displaced persons. But since the soviets instigated the scorched earth policy which slammed shut the borders between the east and the west, the only escape left is through berlin itself. Weary, frightened, and always after dark, these hunted people are poring into the city on an average of 20,000 a month. Th the desperately overburdened city broadcasts an appeal to the people in the soviet zone with these words do not leave unless new direst need. The zone mus...