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President John F Kennedy gave his Ich bin ein Berliner speech on June 26 1963 in West Berlin It is one of the bestknown speeches of the Cold War and among the most famous anticommunist speeches Twentytwo months earlier East Germany had erected the Berlin Wall to prevent mass emigration to West Berlin The speech was aimed as much at the Soviet Union as it was at West Berliners The speech is considered one of Kennedys finest delivered at the height of the Cold War and the New Frontier It was a great morale boost for West Berliners who lived in an enclave deep inside East Germany and feared a possible East German occupation