The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... complete with lookout towers and armed guards who had orders to shoot anyone trying to cross into the Western sector.

Sitting on the Berlin Wall would have been unheard of just two weeks earlier, and most likely would have got Henderson shot. Watchtowers manned by armed guards with strict shoot-to-kill orders ...

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their ... replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed guards who had orders to shoot ...

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the ...