Nov 10, 2014 · Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. Below is a collection of amazing black and white photos of the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

Jun 22, 2013 · The mass immigration of Germans from Communist Berlin to Western Berlin inspired East Germany military leader Erich Honeker to construct the blockade, a barricade of concrete walls, mine fields and guard posts that stretched for 100 miles. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Vintage 1960’s Berlin cold war map showing the Berlin Wall as a bricked-up barrier and barbed wire surrounding West Berlin. Airports, government buildings, factories and other sites are shown in the West, but none in the East.

1962 Map of Berlin depicting the then recently built Berlin Wall dividing the city into East and West. Berlin’s coat of arms is shown in the upper left corner. Stunning Full Colour Reproduction using the Most Advanced Technology Available; Printed on Museum Matte Archival Paper 310gm; Unique Conversation Piece for your Home or Business

Apr 19, 2014 · This is what everyday life around the Berlin Wall in the 1960s looked like. A German women hangs clothing out to dry on a line strung between a tree and the Berlin Wall, Germany, November 13, 1963 (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images).

Dec 8, 2021 · Workers set up a sign warning pedestrians they are leaving the American sector of Berlin, Germany, on Wiener Strasse (Vienna Street) in the district of Kreuzberg in West Berlin, on August 13, 1961. In the background is the Berlin Wall that divides East and West Berlin.

Aug 11, 2024 · Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall (known as Berliner Mauer in German) was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. Its purpose was to keep disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West.

Photographed in May of 1989, this collection has been acclaimed as the last and most complete record of the social, political, and artistic expressions of the wall surrounding the city of West Berlin. The wall itself started as an overnight barbed wire creation in August of 1961.

Mar 12, 2019 · Here are eight of the more inventive ways that people employed to escape to freedom in the West: The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989. East and West Germans stand on top of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate in the days before it was …

May 9, 2012 · Here, LIFE offers powerful pictures of the construction and earliest days of the Wall—photos that offer a glimpse into an era that today feels at once profoundly alien, and disturbingly familiar. A hand reaches above the broken …