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Vice President Johnson, West Berlin Mayor Brandt and Col. Glover S. Johns Jr.

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Vice President Johnson, West Berlin Mayor Brandt and Col. Glover S. Johns Jr.

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Aug. 20, 1961. With Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson looking on, West Berlin Mayor Willi Brandt welcomes Col. Glover S. Johns Jr. and the First Battle Group, 18th Army, U. S. Infantry. From the booklet "A City Torn Apart: Building of the Berlin Wall."

Photos from the booklet "A City Torn Apart: Building of the Berlin Wall" For more information, visit the CIA's Historical Collections page (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/historical-collection-publications/index.html). By: Central Intelligence Agency

Willy Brandt (1913—1992), german statesman, leader of the German Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or SPD) from 1964 to 1987, and chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1971 for his efforts to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of the Soviet bloc. Brandt passed his university entrance examination in 1932. A year later, however, when the Nazis came to power, his activities as a young Social Democrat brought him into conflict with the Gestapo, and he was forced to flee the country to escape arrest. It was at this time, while living in Norway and earning a living as a journalist, that he assumed the name Willy Brandt. When the Germans occupied Norway he escaped to Sweden, where he remained for the duration of World War II. After the war he returned to Germany as a Norwegian citizen and for a time was press attaché at the Norwegian mission in Berlin.

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