East Germany hid 14cm steel spikes beneath the sand in the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall was a system of two walls, including a 'Death Strip' in the middle designed to intimidate and slow down would-be escapees to West Berlin.

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The first murder at the Berlin Wall took place less than 2 weeks after the Wall went up. Günter Litfin was in the process of moving to West Berlin when the city was divided.
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Berlin Archive: GDR Symbols, East Berlin, 1983
📷 Chinon CE4
🎞️ Kodacolor II and Kodak VR1000
© Cliff Docherty Photography

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1984 - Schönhauser Allee / Ecke Dimitroffstraße
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Photo: Rudi Meisel

Zimmerstrasse - possibly cross with Charlottenstrasse
Rare photo of #Berlin wall from #EastBerlin
Interesting if location could be confirmed
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Checkpoint Charlie sign, July 1981.

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The Pressecafe in East Berlin. Willi Neubert’s mural, “Die Presse als Organisator”, was covered up for ~30 years following reunification.

The building is currently empty.
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Off the beaten track: children hospital in Berlin 1911 and 112 years later, operational throughout the GDR… not everywhere did the golden west bring prosperity to Eastberlin.

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Off the beaten track: the hills in the back is the so called „Oderbruchkippe““in north-Eastberlin. Its artificial hills build up from the rubble that used to be the City East around Alexanderplatz until 1945.
Appropriate tune could be this from UK Subs: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RqnWIH…

What's for breakfast?

#HaraldHauswald , German Photographer

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Very excited to watch a series I didn’t know had a third season! How exciting!

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#ClärchensBallhaus , first opened in 1913 #Berlin - #photographs by German #Photographer #SybilleBergemann in 1976 during the #GDR era in #EastBerlin

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7 June 1962 - Reichstag - Brandenburg Gate
View of #EastBerlin
#Berlin #DDR #ColdWar #Berlin wall
Photo: Goetze

Циммерштрассе - возможно, пересечение с Шарлоттенштрассе.
Вид на #WestBerlin из #EastBerlin . Вы живете в самом счастливом соцлагере а все люди к вам стремятся. Настолько, что хуй сбежишь из этого рая пломбирного блядь

🇩🇪 #OTD #13Aug #EastBerlin #EastGermany

On Sunday 13 August 1961, the Communist Government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) begins to build the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall has to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West…

Why I Miss My Friends

#PrenzlauerBerg , #EastBerlin , 1987

Photographer Harald Hauswald

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