“We Were Berliners”: ASA Veteran Norman Silverman Remembers the Berlin Wall Going Up, 1961

By Todd DePastino

This account is drawn largely from the memories and research of Norman Silverman, a veteran of the Army Security Agency who served in West Berlin during the height of the Cold War. Norman later helped create the remarkable West Berlin Archive, an extensive online collection of photographs, documents, recollections, and historical narratives from ASA veterans and others who…