Berlin Wall Photo Essay

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Berlin Wall

Photo Essay


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Time Line for Berlin Wall

May 8, 1945 World War II is over and Berlin is divided into 4 sectors: theAmerican, British, French in the West and the Soviet in the East.

June 30, 1946 At the instigation of the Soviet Military administration thedemarcation line between East and West Germany is safeguarded.

May 24, 1949 Federal Republic of Germany is founded (West Germany)

October 7, 1949 German Democratic Republic is founded (East Germany)

May 26, 1952 Border between East and West Germany and between EastGermany and West Berlin is closed. Only the border between East and West Berlin isstill opened.

December 11, 1957 Leaving East Germany without permission is forbidden andviolations are prosecuted with prison up to three years.

August 26, 1961 All crossing points are closed for West Berlin citizens

June 26, 1963 President John F. Kennedy visits Berlin and says: Ich bin ein Berliner.(I am a Berliner)

June 12, 1987 President Ronald Reagan visits Berlin and urges Soviet leader

Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. November 9, 1989 The wall is breached by citizens on either side.

October 3, 1990 Germany is reunited.
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Berlin Wall

section of the wallthat separated West

Germany (the

Federal Republic of

Germany) from East

Germany (the

Democratic Republic

of Germany) which

was part of the

Soviet Block.

300,000 people

illegally left EastBerlin before the

wall was built in

1961.


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East German Guard escapes through the

first barbed wire wall.


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Building the Berlin Wall 90 miles of

reinforced concrete began in 1961


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Kennedy at

the Berlin

Wall - 1963


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Checkpoint Charlie

One of the few streets remaining through the Berlin Wall. It wasguarded by East Germans on one side and Americans on the

other.


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Another Wall

In 1976 East German Border Troops begun to

erect a new type of Wall in Berlin, the so-

called 'Border Wall 75'. This concrete Wall was

3.60 meter (11.81 ft) high and painted white.

Although painting was not allowed on the East

Berlin side, many artists begun to paint on the

Western side of the Wall beginning of the1980s.


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The Berlin Wall East Side West Side before

the wall is town down.


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Keith Haring painted a section of the wall in 1986


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The Wall Falls

After several weeks of civil unrest, the East Germangovernment announced on 9 November 1989that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany

and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossedand climbed onto the wall, joined by WestGermans on the other side in a celebratoryatmosphere. Over the next few weeks, a euphoric

public and souvenir hunters chipped away partsof the wall; the governments later used industrialequipment to remove most of the rest.


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The day the wall fell November 9, 1989


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Painting the Wall

While the west side of the wall had been covered withpaintings and graffiti, the east side was not accessible tothe population.

After most of the wall was torn down over 100 artistsfrom around the world were invited to paint the largestremaining section of the wall, known as the East SideGallery, in 1990.

In 2009, the artists still alive were invited back to repainttheir art work, which had faded and chipped over thepast 20 years.

The 1,300 meters (1,500 yards) of concrete are coveredwith images related to freedom or the history of theartificial East/West isolation.


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Berlin Wall - East Side Gallery 1989 & 2009


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East Side Gallery


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East Side Gallery

Susanne Kunjappu-Jellinek, West-BerlinSeptember 1998


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Thierry Noir, France, West-Berlin September 1998


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East Side Gallery

Dimitrij Vrubel, Soviet Union, May 1997 Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East

German counterpart, Erich Honniger. "God, help me survive this deadly love" reads the


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East Side Gallery

Birgit Kinder East Germny, September 1998


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20thAnniversary Berlin Wall Dominos


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20thAnniversary Berlin Wall Dominos


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Construction in Potzdamer Platz


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Potzdamer Platz - after WWII


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Potzdamerplatz - the wall and no mans land


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Line in the ground showing location of

wall


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Potzdamerplatz 2010


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