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Satellite image of Berlin, with the Wall's location marked in yellow West and East Berlin borders overlaying a current road map The Berlin Wall ( German : Berliner Mauer , pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ⓘ ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German ...
The Berlin border crossings were border crossings created as a result of the post- World War II division of Germany. Prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, travel between the Eastern and Western sectors of Berlin was completely uncontrolled, although restrictions were increasingly introduced by the Soviet and East German ...
In Berlin alone, 184 km (114 mi) of wall, 154 km (96 mi) border fence, 144 km (89 mi) signal systems and 87 km (54 mi) barrier ditches were removed. What remained were six sections that were to be preserved as a memorial. Various military units dismantled the Berlin/Brandenburg border wall, completing the job in November 1991.
At around 10.30pm, Harris caught the first breach of the Berlin Wall on camera at Eberswalder Strasse. In this image, East German border guards are seen standing in the “Death Strip ...
The Berlin Wall, like the much longer inner German border between East and West Germany, was designed with two purposes in mind: to obstruct would-be border-crossers and to enable border guards to detect and stop illegal border crossings.
As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab ...
Konrad Adenauer. The Berlin Crisis of 1961 (German: Berlin-Krise) was the last major European political and military incident of the Cold War concerning the status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.
Checkpoint Charlie. Coordinates: 52°30′27″N 13°23′25″E. Well-known crossing point in the Berlin Wall; now a museum. A view of Checkpoint Charlie in 1963, from the American sector. Map of Berlin Wall with location of Checkpoint Charlie. Checkpoint Charlie (or " Checkpoint C ") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East ...