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The Berlin Wall 1961-1990

The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall on the canal between the Spree river and the Landwehr Canal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin.View of the GDR control tower at the Lohmuehlenstrasse in the border strip of East Berlin in the evening light. Photography from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

Border strip. View from the bridge in Goerlitzer Ufer, West Berlin, to the GDR houses in the Lohmuehlenstrasse in East Berlin in the evening light. Photography from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

Border strip. View from the bridge in Goerlitzer Ufer, West Berlin, to the GDR houses in the Lohmuehlenstrasse in East Berlin in the evening light. Photography from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

Graffiti on the Wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, near Mariannenplatz. The Berlin Wall colorfully painted with Liberty Statues, view from West Berlin. Photograph from around 1985.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Walk along the Wall. The partly degraded Berlin Wall with border fence. View of the former border strip (GDR side right), in the background the church at Bethaniendamm in Berlin Kreuzberg. Photography from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate

The Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate with a view to the TV Tower. The English appeal painted on the wall "Oh Berlin ..." ends with the call "... kick it down" ("... down with the Wall"). Looking towards East Berlin, GDR. Photographed around 1988

Border crossing at the Berlin Wall / Series / 2nd of 4 photos

GDR border guards leave the territory of the GDR in the direction of West Berlin. Photography from around 1989.

Border crossing at the Berlin Wall / Series / 3rd of 4 photos

GDR border guards leave the territory of the GDR in the direction of West Berlin. Photography from around 1989.

The Berlin Wall

Walk along the Wall in evening light on the canal between the Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photography from around 1983.

Border crossing at the Berlin Wall / Series / 1st of 4 photos

GDR border guards leave the territory of the GDR in the direction of West Berlin. Photography from around 1989.

The Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstrasse

The colorfully painted Berlin Wall, at the Zimmerstrasse. Viewpoint near the corner of Charlottenstrasse at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, overlooking the golden skyscraper of the Axel Springer publishing house. Photography from around 1989.

The Berlin Wall

Walk along the Wall in evening light on the canal between Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photography from around 1983.

Border crossing at the Berlin Wall / Series / 4th of 4 photos

GDR border guards leave the territory of the GDR in the direction of West Berlin. Photography from around 1989.

The Berlin Wall

Walk along the West-Berlin Wall on the canal between the Spree river and the Landwehr Canal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. View of the GDR control tower at the Lohmuehlenstrasse in the border strip of East Berlin. Photo from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall on the canal between the Spree river and the Landwehr Canal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin.View of the GDR control tower on the Lohmuehlenstrasse in the border strip of East Berlin, in the foreground swims a swan. Photography from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate

Attention! You are now leaving West Berlin. Sign in front of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate with a view to the TV Tower. Looking towards East Berlin, GDR. Photography from around 1988.

The Berlin Wall

Border strip. View from the bridge in Goerlitzer Ufer, West Berlin, to the GDR houses in the Lohmuehlenstrasse in East Berlin in the evening light. Photography from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstrasse

"You are leaving the American sector." Sign on the sector border in the 4 Allied languages English, Russian, French and German in front of the painted Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstrasse, SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin. Left, the GDR border control tower on the border area. View towards East Berlin. Photography from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

Walk along the Wall in evening light on the canal between Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photography from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

Walk along the Wall in evening light on the canal between Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photography from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

Walk along the Wall in the evening light on the canal between Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photograph from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

The painted Berlin Wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin. Photograph from around 1987. Photograph from around 1987.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Brightly painted Berlin Wall and parked cars on the Zimmerstrasse at the corner of Charlottenstrasse, SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, behind the GDR border control tower on the border area. Photograph from around 1983.

The Berlin Wall

View from West Berlin to the painted Berlin Wall and a GDR old building with facade and firewall in the Lohmuehlenstrasse in East Berlin. Left the GDR border control tower on the border area. Photograph from around 1987.

Path along the Berlin Wall at Bethanien, SO 36

A girl on the way to school along the colorfully painted Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg, in the background the St. Thomas Church or Thomaskirche at the northern end of Mariannenplatz, West Berlin. Photograph from around 1985.

The Berlin Wall

The painted Berlin Wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin. Photography from around 1990.

Scrapped Trabbi at the Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall, backside East Side Gallery, Berlin-Mitte. View of a wall remnant and car wrecks in Kreuzberg (backside of the so-called East Side Gallery at Mühlenstraße, district Friedrichshain); in the background a factory building. Photography around 1992 [automated translation]

Scrapped VW bus and Ford station wagon at the Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall, backside East Side Gallery, Berlin-Mitte. View of a wall remnant and car wrecks in Kreuzberg (backside of the so-called East Side Gallery at Mühlenstraße, district Friedrichshain); in the background the main station (today again Ostbahnhof). Photography around 1992 [automated translation]

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

People in front of the Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstrasse, next to Checkpoint Charlie, beside them is an escape route pictogram painted on the wall. Photography from around 1989/1990.

Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

GDR border police on the remains of the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. On the left the broadcasting van of Deutschlandfunk, today Deutschlandradio. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Wall peckers on the western side of the Berlin Wall. Photography from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Sale of wall pieces in front of the Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstrasse next to Checkpoint Charlie. Photography from around 1989/1990.

Hole in the Berlin Wall in the inner border strip

Wall opening, passers-by at the open Berlin Wall. View from the former border strip (GDR side), in the background the Bethanien-Kirche in Berlin Kreuzberg. Photography from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Former borderland with GDR border control tower and patrol road. Turkish children cycling at the wall strip. Today there is the Engelbecken or Angel's Pool in the border area Berlin-Kreuzberg / Mitte. Photography from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

A boy balancing on the Berlin Wall. In the background, GDR prefab buildings. View from Kreuzberg to East Berlin. Photography from around 1990.

Souvenirs / Pieces of the Berlin Wall

Wall pecker. Turkish family in Berlin Kreuzberg. Photography from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Wall peckers at the West Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, surrounded by a crowd. Photography from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Wall strip at the Leuschner dam. On the left the hinterland wall on the GDR side, on the right the Berlin Wall on Leuschner dam, West Berlin, in between the former borderland with GDR border patrol road. In the background the St. Thomas Church ( Thomaskirche) at the northern end of Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Photograph from around 1990.

View over the border / Turning point in Berlin

View over the hinterland wall on the border strip towards East Berlin. A woman looks out the window at firewalls. Photographed around 1990.

Scrapped Trabi at the Berlin Wall

Burnt out Trabant in front of remains of the Berlin Wall. Photography around 1991 [automated translation]

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Wall strip at the Leuschner dam. On the left the hinterland wall on the GDR side, on the right the Berlin Wall on Leuschner dam, West Berlin, in between former borderland with GDR border patrol road. In the background the St. Thomas Church ( Thomaskirche) at the northern end of Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Photograph from around 1990.

Press cage in Berlin

Barrier with the note "Press only" (press cage) in front of a stairway to a viewing platform at the Berlin Wall (west side). In the background are policemen. Photograph from 1989.

Souvenirs / Pieces of the Berlin Wall

Wall-peckers. Turkish family with a stall offering wall pieces with colorful paintings on a table with GDR flag. Berlin Kreuzberg, Photography from around 1990

Wall gaps in Berlin

Women, children and an amateur photographer look through openings in the Berlin Wall to East Berlin, GDR. Photography from around 1989.

Wall pecker at the Berlin Wall / Turning point

Wall peckers on the western side of the Berlin Wall. Photographed around 1990.

Text graffiti on a fire wall

East German street lamp, behind the border is a ruined building in West Berlin, Koepenicker Strasse, Kreuzberg. On the firewall is painted: "The border does not run between the nations but between the top and the bottom (or the rich and the poor)". Photography from around 1990.

Winter on the wall strip, Berlin

Winter walk on the Berlin Wall on Potsdamer Platz in winter, in the haze is the Esplanade (still in the old place). Photography from around 1990 // Winter walk along the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz in winter, in the haze the building "Esplanade" (still in the old place) can be recognized. Photography from around 1990.

Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

GDR border police on the remains of the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate with GDR flag. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

The street corner Koepenicker Strasse / Fritz-Heckert-Strasse, border strip with hinterland wall. View from East Berlin (front) to old buildings of Kreuzberg. Photography from around 1990.

Border strip at the turning point in Berlin

3 tourists on the GDR border tower in Waldemarstrasse, Kreuzberg, West Berlin. In the background is the TV Tower in East Berlin, GDR. Photography from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Wall remains with graffiti in the Waldemarstrasse corner Leuschner Damm in Berlin-Kreuzberg, West Berlin. Colorfully painted Berlin Wall by "Indiano", alias Juergen Grosse. Photography from around 1990.

Border control at Checkpoint Charlie at the turning point in Berlin

GDR border guards at Checkpoint Charlie / Zimmerstasse. On the firewall is the inscription "New era of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany". Photography from around 1990.

Wall gap in Berlin

Making contact. A GDR border policeman looks through an opening in the Berlin Wall on a passerby on the West Berlin side. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photography from 1989.

Berlin Wall at the time of the turning point in Berlin

Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg overlooking the facade with barred windows of a GDR old building on the border strip. View from West Berlin. Photography around 1989

Soldiers in the border strip at the turning point in Berlin

On the border strip, GDR border guards patrol with a military Trabant. In the background the St. Thomas Church ( Thomaskirche) at the northern end of Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg, on the left are old buildings. Photography from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Sale of wall pieces in front of the Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstrasse next to Checkpoint Charlie. Photography from around 1989/1990.

Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

GDR border police on the remains of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. In the background, the Brandenburg Gate with the Quadriga as well as a red and GDR flag. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Observation platform in front of the painted Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg overlooking the facade with barred windows of a GDR old building on the border strip. On the firewall stands the inscription "New era of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany". Photograph from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Walk along the Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg, in the background the St. Thomas Church or Thomaskirche at the northern end of Mariannenplatz, West Berlin. Photograph from around 1990.

The Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

GDR border police on the remains of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate. On the left the broadcasting van of Deutschlandfunk, today Deutschlandradio. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Wall strip at the children's farm in Kreuzberg, West Berlin, in the background the Church at Bethaniendamm. Photograph from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Group of people in front of the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, West Berlin, besides them is an escape route pictogram painted on the wall and a padlock. Photograph from 1989.

The Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

GDR border police on the remains of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989.

Berlin Wall at the time of the turning point in Berlin

Costume rental. Discarded GDR border uniform with cap and other GDR emblems on the pickled Berlin Wall. Photography around 1990

The Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

GDR border police on the remains of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate. Inscription on the wall "Erich give it up". View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

View of Checkpoint Charlie and the GDR border control installations from the viewing platform in front of the painted Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin. Photograph from around 1990.

The Berlin Wall at the turning point

Observation platform in front of the painted Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, with a view of the facade with barred windows of an old GDR building on the border strip. Photograph from around 1990.

The Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

GDR border police on the remains of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate, in the background the TV Tower. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photograph from 1989.

Holes in the Berlin Wall

Women look through openings in the Berlin Wall. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photograph from 1989.

Turning point in Berlin

Graffiti on the Wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, near Mariannenplatz. Colorfully painted Berlin Wall with yellow cat, in front of it a dog on the green area. View from West Berlin. Photograph from around 1989/1990.

Border crossing in Berlin

Border guards of the GDR on the Berlin Wall in conversation with police officers of West Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photograph from 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall with the fall of communism and the nation's reunification.

Opening of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin

Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). Pedestrians from East Berlin, East Germany, pass the provisional border crossing at Potsdamer Platz on November 12, 1989, and are expected by a crowd of people waiting behind barriers on the West Berlin side. Border policemen regulate the traffic.

The Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

A GDR border soldier patrols on the wall remains of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate with Quadriga and GDR flag and red flags in front of it. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photograph from 1989.

The Berlin Wall

Graffiti by the French wall artist Thierry Noir (born 1958 in Lyon) at the wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, near Mariannenplatz. The Berlin Wall colorfully painted with heads, view from West Berlin. Photograph from around 1989/1990.

Event shooting at the Berlin Wall

An artist dressed as an angel for a photo-shoot, next to police officers from West Berlin. In the background are GDR border policemen on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photograph from 1989.

Opening of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin

Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). A group of people are sitting on the Berlin Wall holding up a poster with the inscription "Solidarnosc".

Opening of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin

Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). A young man occupies the Berlin Wall. People clap, take photos, and start pecking pieces from the wall.

Opening of the Wall at Schlesische Strasse / Puschkinallee with border policemen, Berlin

Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). Pedestrians from East Berlin, GDR, pass the border crossing. Opening of the Wall at Schlesische Str. / Puschkinallee. West Berliners waiting for border crossers from East Berlin.

Border control at Checkpoint Charlie at the time of the turning point in Berlin

GDR border guards in uniform at Checkpoint Charlie / Zimmerstasse next to various signposts for border crossers and in front of a fire wall with the inscription "Neue Zeit". (New Era)

Opening of the Wall at Schlesische Strasse / Puschkinallee with border policemen, Berlin

Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). Pedestrians from East Berlin, GDR, pass the border crossing. Wall opening at Schlesische Str. / Puschkinallee, Berlin border policemen regulate the traffic.

Wall woodpeckers, 1990

Two men break pieces from the Berlin Wall with a hammer and a chisel as souvenirs.

Painted section of the Berlin Wall, 1990

Young wall woodpeckers on a remnant of the Berlin Wall painted with graffiti and slogans.

View over the warll of Berlin from 1990 onwards

View over the warll of Berlin from 1990 onwards, wall, Germany

View over the warll of Berlin from 1990 onwards

View over the warll of Berlin from 1990 onwards, wall, Germany

Wooden scaffolding for tourists at the Wall, 1989

A wooden scaffolding in West Berlin from which people can look through the Wall.

View over the Berlin Wall, 1988

View over the Berlin Wall on East Berlin, in the foreground are children in a car.

Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, 1988

Overview and views of the Berlin Wall: Berlin's once busiest square, Potsdamer Platz, was a wasteland during the time of the Berlin Wall. In the background, East Berlin with the TV tower.

Section of the Berlin Wall

Undated image of a wall section, approx. 1980.

Section of the Berlin Wall, 1987

A section of the Berlin Wall with watchtower in the background.

Berlin Wall from 1980 until ctober 1989 The Berlin Wall

A couple walks towards the Berlin Wall. Behind the Wall, the picture shows a watchtower of the GDR border patrol and the Berlin Television Tower. Berlin Wall from 1980 until ctober 1989, the, Germany

GDR border guards on the west side of the Berlin Wall, Dec. 1989

Border guards of the GDR lead a border patrol even after the opening of the Berlin Wall on the west side of the still standing wall.

Berlin Wall from 1980 until ctober 1989

Berlin Wall from 1980 until ctober 1989, the, Germany

The Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg, 1980

A man with his dog walks along the wall at the inner German border in the Waldemarstrasse in West Berlin, Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Wall and watchtower in Berlin-Treptow

Undated picture taken from Neukoelln on the death strip across the watchtower and residential buildings in Treptow.

Berlin Wall with "NSDAP" lettering 1989

View of the Berlin Wall at the Martin-Gropius-Bau. On the wall are several graffiti and logos, including "NSDAP" and SS runes.

View over the Berlin Wall

Undated picture of East Berlin high-rise buildings behind the Berlin Wall.

View of the Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg, 1980s

View of East Berlin skyscrapers behind the Berlin Wall on the corner of Lindenstrasse / Zimmerstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Undated photo.

Berlin Wall on Kochstrasse, 1985

View of the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall in Kochstrasse, Berlin-Kreuzberg. In the middle, a watchtower of the GDR. On the right, a sign with the inscription "You are leaving the American sector".

The Brandenburg Gate behind the Berlin Wall, 1980

View over the Berlin Wall on the Brandenburg Gate and the fortifications installed all around.

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