Berlin, Germany- Sixty-two-year-old Anna "K." with belt and rope still slung around her body, is helped away from sector border by two West Berliners...
East German soldiers in full battle dress line the Russian sector of the Friedrichstrasse border crossing here on December 4th, while workmen rush...
Friends and Relatives gather each evening on both sides of the Berlin Wall to wave to each other, 1961.
War and Conflict, People, , The Berlin Wall, pic: circa 1961,East German soldiers stand guard as workmen reinforce the wall,The Berlin Wall was...
War and Conflict, People, , The Berlin Wall, pic: 28th October 1961, A board pointing out the direction to the Radio Station of the Western Allies,...
War and Conflict, People, , The Berlin Wall, pic: October 1961, American checkpoint guards stop a Russian bus in a reprisal after an incident when...
Memorial to Ida Siekmann , the first person to die at the Berlin Wall, on Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, Germany, 1961.
Soldiers building the Berlin Wall as instructed by the East German authorities, in order to strengthen the existing barriers dividing East and West...
Families and friends, once neighbours, now stand divided and wave across to each other over the Berlin wall.
The construction site of the Berlin Wall, 1961. The Wall was to minimize the flow of Eastern inhabitants moving to the West.
Under armed guards, East German workers unload and cement concrete blocks to build the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961.
Painted East German Trabant motor car parked next to Friedrich Strasse station, close to where the Berlin Wall had previously run. The Berlin Wall...
Germany / GDR, Berlin. The building of the wall. East-Berlin: People living close to the border are controlled by East-German policmen before they...
Germany / GDR, Berlin. The building of the wall. A West-Berlin woman at the border. Under the supervision of an East-German border guard she is...
Germany / GDR, Berlin. The building of the wall. West-Berlin citizens on a ladder waving to their relatives in East-Berlin. 1961
Germany / GDR, Berlin. The building of the wall. In a house next to the border a window is walled up.
Germany / GDR, Berlin. The building of the wall. East-German policemen fortify the wall at Brandenburg Gate. 1961
Inner German border, members of the People's Police working on building the wall, near Reichstag, Berlin
Since August 1961, horizon for East Berliners was limited to contemplating this 4 meters high wall on which hundreds of escape candidates injured...
