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Once again near the end of his career, Adenauer's position that anti-communism should be the top priority of West German foreign policy was vindicated by another brutal initiative of the East German authorities, the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Construction of the Berlin Wall begins on 13 August 1961.

SOURCE: Deutscher Bundestag, Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte. Historische Ausstellung im Reichstagsgebaeude in Berlin: Katalog, 7th edn (Bonn, 1981), Picture #307.