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The American leadership-General Lucius Clay, in Berlin as the envoy of President John F. Kennedy; the U.S. Commander in Berlin, Major General Albert Watson; and Allan Lightner, Jr., the senior State Department representative-were determined not to recognize the East German border guards as having any authority in Berlin. Repeated Soviet-instigated efforts to restrict access by American personnel to the Soviet sector continued, substantially increasing tensions in Berlin.
Ein neues größeres US-Kontrollhaus wird am Checkpoint Charlie aufgebaut, mit einem Kran wurde ein Element mit US-Nationalflagge auf die Straße gesetzt. Ein weiteres Element steht auf einem Tieflader für den Aufbau bereit. Fotografen und Schaulustige beobachten das Geschehen. Im Hintergrund ist der Kommandoturm der Grenzübergangsstelle zu sehen.[A new, larger US guardhouse is being erected at Checkpoint Charlie. A crane has lifted one section, adorned with the US flag, onto the road. Another container segment is on a carrier, ready for assembly. Photographers and passersby are looking on. The East German border watchtower is visible in the background.]
The Allied checkpoint underwent structural changes too. The wooden guardhouse was enlarged and then replaced by a metal container in the mid-1970s. But it always remained an impermanent structure in the middle of Friedrichstrasse as a way for the United States to demonstrate its non-recognition of the city's division.
