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  The border strip at Bernauer Straße, corner of Ackerstraße, in 1989, seen from West Berlin over the graffiti-covered Wall: an East German army Trabant patrols past a watchtower.

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, ddr-fotograf.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Home page

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  Steel plates in the grass at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße trace the course of an escape tunnel dug in 1964 (photographed 2014).

  Photo: Tony Webster from Portland, Oregon, United States. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Tunnels

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  Vehicle lanes 9 and 10 at the East German side of Checkpoint Charlie in 1987, where cars leaving East Berlin were stopped and searched; the dark doorway at right is the pedestrian passage.

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Hidden in vehicles

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  The Invalidenstraße border crossing at the Sandkrugbrücke, 15 October 1987, seen from West Berlin: the bridge leads to the East German checkpoint, barrier and control buildings.

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Driving through

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  The border strip and a watchtower seen from an S-Bahn train running over the Wall towards Friedrichstraße station, 20 November 1989.

  Photo: Frits Wiarda. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on By train

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  Memorial stone for Günter Litfin at the Humboldthafen on Alexanderufer, Berlin-Mitte (2017). Litfin was shot dead on 24 August 1961 while trying to swim across the Humboldthafen – the first person killed by shots at the Wall.

  Photo: Ansgar Koreng. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 de · Used on Swimming

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  Underwater and floating barriers of the GDR border in the Havel at Tiefer See near the Glienicke Bridge, 1987, seen from the water.

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on By boat

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  The Berlin Wall at the corner of Niederkirchnerstraße and Wilhelmstraße, 1988, looking east from West Berlin. Here the Wall ran past the GDR's Haus der Ministerien, from whose roof the Holzapfel family escaped along a cable in 1965.

  Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Ziplines and cables

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  DOWA 81, a home-made light aircraft built in East Germany in 1981 by Gerhard Wagner so that he and his family could escape; now in the Deutsches Museum, Munich (2009).

  Photo: Cplakidas. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Aircraft and balloons

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  The corner house at Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978: the facade stood on the border line, with the ground-floor windows and doors bricked up and the upper windows shuttered.

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Window jumps

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  The memorial cross for Peter Fechter on Zimmerstraße, West Berlin, 1 December 1989. Fechter was shot on 17 August 1962 while climbing the Wall at this spot and bled to death in the death strip.

  Photo: Aad van der Drift. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Over the wall

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  Sculpture of Conrad Schumann's leap on the former border strip at Bernauer Straße near Ruppiner Straße (2009). The East German border policeman jumped over the barbed wire into West Berlin here on 15 August 1961.

  Photo: Jotquadrat. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Guards who fled

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  Passport control booths at the Friedrichstraße station border crossing, 18 November 1989. Refugees travelling on forged or borrowed Western passports had to get past checks like these.

  Photo: Frits Wiarda. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on False papers and disguises

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  Memorial cross for escape helper Dieter Wohlfahrt at Bergstraße / Hauptstraße in Staaken, where he was shot in December 1961 (photographed 2009)

  Photo: Pemba.mpimaji. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Dieter Wohlfahrt, escape helper shot at Staaken

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  Memorial plaque for Dieter Wohlfahrt at the foot of the wooden cross at Hauptstraße / Bergstraße, Berlin-Staaken (2013)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Dieter Wohlfahrt, escape helper shot at Staaken

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  The memorial to Peter Fechter on the West Berlin side of the Wall in Zimmerstraße, photographed on 1 May 1984 while the Wall still stood

  Photo: U.S. Department of Defense. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Peter Fechter bleeds to death at Zimmerstraße

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  The Peter Fechter memorial column in Zimmerstraße near Checkpoint Charlie, close to where he bled to death in August 1962 (photographed 2005)

  Photo: Jensen (German Wikipedia). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Peter Fechter bleeds to death at Zimmerstraße

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  Ernst Mundt's portrait in the 'Window of Remembrance' at the Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Straße (2015)

  Photo: Brewer Bob. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Ernst Mundt shot on the Sophien cemetery wall

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  The surviving section of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Straße seen from the Sophien cemetery, on whose wall Ernst Mundt was shot in 1962 (photographed 2008)

  Photo: Jörg Zägel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Ernst Mundt shot on the Sophien cemetery wall

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  Memorial steles for Georg Feldhahn and Siegfried Widera at the Massantebrücke over the Teltow Canal, Berlin-Johannisthal (2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Border guard Siegfried Widera fatally injured at the Massante Bridge

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  The Massantebrücke over the Teltow Canal, near where border guard Siegfried Widera was fatally injured in August 1963 (photographed 2024)

  Photo: Krib. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Border guard Siegfried Widera fatally injured at the Massante Bridge

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  Memorial to Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener by Rüdiger Roehl and Jan Skuin (1999), Kiefholzstraße, Berlin-Plänterwald, near where the two boys were shot in March 1966 (photographed 2011)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Children Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener shot in Treptow

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  Inscription on the memorial to Jörg Hartmann (10) and Lothar Schleusener (13), Kiefholzstraße, Berlin-Plänterwald (2011)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Children Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener shot in Treptow

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  Memorial stele for Dietmar Schwietzer on the Berlin Wall Trail at the border between Schönwalde-Glien and Spandau (2011)

  Photo: Pemba.mpimaji. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Dietmar Schwietzer killed near Schönwalde

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  Memorial panel for Dietmar Schwietzer at Berliner Allee, Schönwalde-Glien (2015)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Dietmar Schwietzer killed near Schönwalde

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  Memorial stele for Marienetta Jirkowsky in Hohen Neuendorf, near where she was shot in November 1980 (photographed 2013)

  Photo: Matthias Wiegandt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Marienetta Jirkowsky shot from a ladder at Hohen Neuendorf

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  The approximate line of Marienetta Jirkowsky's escape attempt of November 1980 in Hohen Neuendorf, photographed in 2014

  Photo: Brewer Bob. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Marienetta Jirkowsky shot from a ladder at Hohen Neuendorf

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  Memorial panel at Klemkestraße, Berlin-Reinickendorf, commemorating Horst Frank, Wernhard Mispelhorn, Horst Einsiedel and Silvio Proksch, who died at the Wall on this stretch of the border (2016)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Silvio Proksch shot on Christmas Day at Pankow cemetery

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  Michael Bittner's portrait in the 'Window of Remembrance' at the Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Straße (2024)

  Photo: Ankermast. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Michael Bittner shot at Glienicke/Nordbahn

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  Memorial stele for Lutz Schmidt and for Christel and Eckhard Wehage in the Landschaftspark Rudow-Altglienicke, on the former border strip (2013)

  Photo: SCIdude. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on Lutz Schmidt shot helping his friend over the Wall

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  White memorial crosses for Lutz Schmidt and Chris Gueffroy at the Berlin Wall, photographed on 28 December 1989

  Photo: Aad van der Drift. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Lutz Schmidt shot helping his friend over the Wall

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  The railway corridor at the Bösebrücke in June 1988, with the Berlin Wall, the bridge and Bornholmer Straße station – the stretch where Ingolf Diederichs jumped from an S-Bahn train in January 1989

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Ingolf Diederichs dies jumping from an S-Bahn at Bösebrücke

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  The Berlin Wall dividing the railway lines just north of the Bösebrücke at Bornholmer Straße, August 1984

  Photo: Hagen Pelka, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Ingolf Diederichs dies jumping from an S-Bahn at Bösebrücke

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  Memorial steles for Chris Gueffroy by Karl Biedermann on the bank of the Britzer Verbindungskanal (Britzer Zweigkanal), near where he was shot on 5 February 1989 (photographed 2016)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Chris Gueffroy, the last escaper shot dead at the Wall

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  Distant view of the Chris Gueffroy memorial by the canal, looking towards what was West Berlin (2014)

  Photo: Brewer Bob. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Chris Gueffroy, the last escaper shot dead at the Wall

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  Sculpture commemorating Conrad Schumann's leap, on the former border strip at Bernauer Straße near Ruppiner Straße (photographed 2009)

  Photo: Jotquadrat. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Conrad Schumann's leap to freedom

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Ruppiner Straße in August 1963, two years after Conrad Schumann jumped the wire here; the East Berlin border houses have bricked-up windows

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Conrad Schumann's leap to freedom

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  Bernauer Straße 1, next door to No. 2, in August 1963, its windows bricked up; a memorial on the pavement marks Rudolf Urban, who was fatally injured escaping from this house

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Border policeman Lutz M. jumps from Bernauer Straße 2

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  The border strip at Bernauer Straße / Ackerstraße beside the Sophien cemetery, photographed from the East in 1989 with a watchtower and a border-troops vehicle

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, ddr-fotograf.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The boot left in the barbed wire

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  The Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße, seen from the Sophien cemetery (2008)

  Photo: Beek100. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The boot left in the barbed wire

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  The Berlin Wall around the West Berlin enclave of Steinstücken, 1987

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Rudi Thurow leads refugees to Steinstücken

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  A border watchtower on the Wall around Steinstücken, April 1989

  Photo: Aad van der Drift. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Rudi Thurow leads refugees to Steinstücken

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  The S-Bahn entry signal and the Berlin Wall at Griebnitzsee, 30 May 1983

  Photo: Harald Knauer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Deserting cadets' gunfight at Griebnitzsee

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  Memorial markers tracing the former course of the Berlin Wall at Griebnitzsee (2013)

  Photo: Lichterfelder. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Deserting cadets' gunfight at Griebnitzsee

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  The railway corridor with the Berlin Wall, the Bösebrücke and Bornholmer Straße S-Bahn station, June 1988

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Hans-Dieter Wesa shot at Bornholmer Straße station

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  Border troops at the Bornholmer Straße crossing and S-Bahn station, photographed from the East in 1982

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, gerddanigel.de.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Hans-Dieter Wesa shot at Bornholmer Straße station

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  Aerial view of the Berlin Wall and death strip between Falkensee (Brandenburg) and Spandau's Falkenhagener Feld, 27 April 1987

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Two border policemen escape from their bulldozer in Falkensee

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  Undated U.S. Army aerial photograph of the Berlin Wall along Kopenhagener Straße at Wilhelmsruh, between Pankow (East) and Reinickendorf (West)

  Photo: AlliiertenMuseum/U.S. Army Photograph. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on Border policeman crashes a crawler tractor through the wire

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  Bernauer Straße at Gartenstraße on 8 June 1962: the Wall, and the sealed entrance to Nordbahnhof S-Bahn station on the right

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two conscripts flee on New Year's Eve at Gartenstraße

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial seen from Gartenstraße, looking east (2011)

  Photo: N-Lange.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two conscripts flee on New Year's Eve at Gartenstraße

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  The Berlin Wall between Bernauer Straße and Eberswalder Straße, January 1974

  Photo: Andreas Schwarzkopf. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on "Now there are two fewer of you!"

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  Looking over the Wall from the end of Bernauer Straße into Eberswalder Straße, East Berlin, 1982

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on "Now there are two fewer of you!"

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  Memorial panels at Lankestraße 2, Klein Glienicke, for Rainer Gneiser, Rolf Henniger, Horst Körner, Günter Wiedenhöft and Norbert Wolscht (2023)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Deserting policeman and border soldier die near Klein Glienicke

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  Memorial stele for border soldier Ulrich Steinhauer on the Berlin Wall Trail at the Eiskeller, Spandau (2012)

  Photo: Pemba.mpimaji. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Egon B.'s desertion and the death of Ulrich Steinhauer

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  Memorial panel for Ulrich Steinhauer at Eiskellerweg, Berlin-Hakenfelde (2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Egon B.'s desertion and the death of Ulrich Steinhauer

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  A double row of cobblestones marking the former line of the Berlin Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two 'postal workers' cycle to the West

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  The border crossing at Friedrichstraße S-Bahn station on 30 October 1964, when West Berliners crossed on visitor passes

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1030-0046-001 / Hans-Joachim Spremberg. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Joachim Neumann's Swiss passport

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  Memorial plaque for Günter A. at Brunnenstraße 50, Berlin-Mitte (2013)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Günter A. climbs the Wall under machine-pistol fire

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  Cobblestones marking the former line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Günter A. climbs the Wall under machine-pistol fire

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Ruppiner Straße in August 1963, with the border houses' windows bricked up

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Rope-ladder escape at Ruppiner Straße

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  The Bernauer Straße / Ruppiner Straße junction in 2007

  Photo: Andreas Thum. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Rope-ladder escape at Ruppiner Straße

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  Memorial to the border barriers at Jungbornstraße 29, Glienicke/Nordbahn, a few houses from where the 1986 ladder escape crossed (2020)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on "Ladder of success" at Glienicke/Nordbahn

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  The Bornholmer Straße border crossing photographed from a rooftop on Finnländische Straße, 1984

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, ddr-fotograf.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Over the rear wall and across the Bösebrücke

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  The Berlin Wall at the Bornholmer Straße crossing / Bösebrücke, 2 June 1985

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Over the rear wall and across the Bösebrücke

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  Cobblestones marking the former line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Dieter H.'s folding-ladder escape under fire

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  A US Army tank on the Friedrichstraße at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961, the year Hasso Herschel crossed here on someone else's Swiss passport; East German police stand on the cleared ground behind (US Army photo)

  Photo: U.S. Army photo. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Hasso Herschel leaves on a Swiss passport

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  The old Späthstraßenbrücke of 1906 over the Teltow Canal in Britz, photographed in 2009; the canal here was the sector border when Horst Klein fell onto its eastern bank in December 1962

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Circus artiste Horst Klein on the high-voltage line

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  The Teltow Canal at the old Späthstraßenbrücke in summer 2007

  Photo: Jwnabd. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Circus artiste Horst Klein on the high-voltage line

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  The Wall at the Brandenburg Gate seen from West Berlin in June 1965, a year after a wounded teenager was pulled over it just south of the Gate

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Wounded teenager pulled over the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate

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  Bahnhof Friedrichstraße on 11 January 1964, two months before the wheelchair escape, photographed by the East German news agency as West Berlin visitors arrived under the pass agreement

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1101-0041-002 / Hans-Joachim Spremberg. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on The wheelchair on the S-Bahn to Zoo

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  The Heinrich-Heine-Straße border crossing in June 1965, the year after fifteen people were smuggled out here in a meat lorry

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Fifteen people behind the pig carcasses

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  The border strip along the Stallschreiberstraße, photographed from West Berlin in November 1987; Michael Meyer was pulled over the Wall on this street in 1964

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Michael Meyer pulled over the Wall under fire

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  East German border police checking cars at the Invalidenstraße crossing on 31 October 1964, six weeks before the airport-bus escape there (East German news agency photo)

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1031-0044-005 / Rudolf Hesse. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Hidden in the airport bus's spare-wheel box

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  Marker for the former Invalidenstraße border crossing (1961–1989) at the Sandkrugbrücke (2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Hidden in the airport bus's spare-wheel box

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  Bahnhof Friedrichstraße in January 1964, a year before escapers slipped through a cut grille between its S-Bahn platforms (East German news agency photo)

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1101-0041-002 / Hans-Joachim Spremberg. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Through a cut grille between the S-Bahn platforms

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen through the windscreen of a bus on the Friedrichstraße in November 1965, three months after an escaper crossed here in a tourist bus's shadow

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on In the shadow of a tourist bus at Checkpoint Charlie

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  The former border strip at the Zehlendorfer Damm (in 1971 the Philipp-Müller-Allee) in Kleinmachnow in November 1990, shortly after the Wall came down

  Photo: Andreas Lippold. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Three Leipzig youths over the fence at Kleinmachnow

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  Plaque at Zimmerstraße 9 marking where Manfred and Peter Höer and Peter Schöpf came up from their tunnel on 9 January 1972 (photographed 2018)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The heaters' tunnel under the Zimmerstraße

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  The Wall around Klein Glienicke seen from the West Berlin side at the Böttcherberg in April 1988, with houses of the enclave just beyond the border fence

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A home-made ladder from the garden at Am Böttcherberg

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  The Allied checkpoint at Checkpoint Charlie in May 1977, six months before Helmut Eggebrecht crossed here in a US Air Force uniform (US Department of Defense photo)

  Photo: HELGA T.H. MELLMANN. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on In a US Air Force uniform at Checkpoint Charlie

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  The double-track section of the Waisentunnel, open to visitors on Heritage Day in 2008; Dieter Wendt led his relatives through this tunnel towards the U8 in 1980

  Photo: Eric H.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Hitch-hiking on the U8

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  Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke on the Brückenstraße in March 1990; the U8 ghost station below, where West Berlin trains passed without stopping, had reopened only in November 1989

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Hitch-hiking on the U8

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  The Bornholmer Straße border crossing and the Bösebrücke in 1982, the year two S-Bahn passengers escaped over the barriers just south of the bridge

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, gerddanigel.de.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Emergency brake and ladder south of the Bösebrücke

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  Surviving stretch of the inner border wall beside the S-Bahn tracks at the Norwegerstraße near Bornholmer Straße station (2020)

  Photo: Global Fish. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Emergency brake and ladder south of the Bösebrücke

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  Bahnhof Friedrichstraße from the corner of Clara-Zetkin-Straße in 1983, the year of the S-Bahn hijacking there

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, gerddanigel.de.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The S-Bahn hijacking at Friedrichstraße

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  Wall and watchtower at the Heinrich-Heine-Straße crossing, corner of Sebastianstraße, on 3 July 1990; Kay-Uwe Katte drove a tipper truck through this crossing in 1983

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Stolen tipper truck at Heinrich-Heine-Straße

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  Marker for the course of the Wall on the Wilhelmsruher Damm in Berlin-Rosenthal (2013)

  Photo: Günter Haase. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Smoke screen at the Wilhelmsruher Damm

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  Memorial plaque for the betrayed escape tunnel at Kremmener Straße 15, Berlin-Mitte, unveiled in 2011 (photographed 2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The betrayed Kremmener Straße tunnel, dug from East to West

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  Memorial plaque at Bernauer Straße 97 for escape helper Wolfgang Fuchs, recording the first tunnel from the bakery cellar and its discovery on 8 January 1964 (photographed 2013)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The first Bernauer Straße 97 tunnel ends in a coal yard

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  The tower of the Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from West Berlin; undated photograph by Willy Pragher from the years the Wall stood

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Through the graveyard and the church gate: Hildegard K. and her son

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the border wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from West Berlin on 12 January 1978

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Through the graveyard and the church gate: Hildegard K. and her son

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  The Reconciliation Church standing in the cleared border strip behind the Wall; undated photograph by Willy Pragher taken from the western side

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Bernd B. is shot five metres from the Wall

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the border wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from West Berlin on 12 January 1978

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Bernd B. is shot five metres from the Wall

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  The preserved section of the border wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from the Sophien cemetery side, with the Lazarus hospital buildings in West Berlin behind it (January 2008)

  Photo: Beek100. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two young men swing over the Sophien cemetery wall under fire

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  The preserved section of the border wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from the Sophien cemetery side, with the Lazarus hospital buildings in West Berlin behind it (January 2008)

  Photo: Beek100. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Helmut P. is shot at but gets over the cemetery wall

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  The preserved section of the border wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from the Sophien cemetery side, with the Lazarus hospital buildings in West Berlin behind it (January 2008)

  Photo: Beek100. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on 35 shots at Karl-Heinz Br. and Gerd W. in the cemetery strip

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  The preserved border wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from the Sophien cemetery side, with a wooden memorial cross in the former border strip (January 2008)

  Photo: Jörg Zägel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Dog handler Werner K. slips away over the cemetery wall

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  The preserved border wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from the Sophien cemetery side, with a wooden memorial cross in the former border strip (January 2008)

  Photo: Jörg Zägel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Peter St. escapes on his birthday, losing his wallet

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Strelitzer Straße in 2016; rusted steel rods mark the line of the Wall, and Strelitzer Straße runs away on the left

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Gefreiter K. climbs the Wall behind a sight screen at Strelitzer Straße

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Strelitzer Straße in 2016; rusted steel rods mark the line of the Wall, and Strelitzer Straße runs away on the left

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A 22-year-old is shot in the leg at Strelitzer Straße

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in May 2015; the Berlin Wall Memorial's gable-wall mural shows a 1961 scene at this street

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A VW Beetle races through the barbed wire at Ackerstraße

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985, with the rubble of the just-demolished Reconciliation Church behind it

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A VW Beetle races through the barbed wire at Ackerstraße

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985, with the rubble of the just-demolished Reconciliation Church behind it

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Private Klaus Sch. switches off the lights and climbs over on a stool

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in May 2015; the Berlin Wall Memorial's gable-wall mural shows a 1961 scene at this street

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Private Klaus Sch. switches off the lights and climbs over on a stool

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, where the border houses stood; the gable mural shows a 1961 photo

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Three people rope down from the corner house Brunnenstraße 138

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, where the border houses stood; the gable mural shows a 1961 photo

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Ladder escape at Brunnenstraße despite an aimed shot

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  The "White Crosses" memorial on the Spree bank by the Reichstag (Reichstagufer/Friedrich-Ebert-Platz), including the cross for Elke and Dieter Weckeiser (2022)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Elke and Dieter Weckeiser shot opposite the Reichstag

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  Memorial steles for Max Sahmland, Michael Kollender and Dieter Berger on the Berlin Wall Trail at Ernst-Ruska-Ufer, Berlin-Adlershof, near the Teltow Canal (2013)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Max Sahmland – shot while swimming the Teltow Canal

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  Memorial steles for Max Sahmland, Michael Kollender and Dieter Berger on the Berlin Wall Trail at Ernst-Ruska-Ufer, Berlin-Adlershof, near the Teltow Canal (2013)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Michael Kollender – a soldier's flight from guard duty

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  Memorial steles for Peter Kreitlow and Franciszek Piesik on the Havel bank in Hennigsdorf (2013)

  Photo: Christian Gering. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Franciszek Piesik – from the Oder to the Nieder Neuendorfer See

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  The memorial steles for Franciszek Piesik and Peter Kreitlow beside the Berlin Wall Trail near the Schwimmhafenwiese, Hennigsdorf (2013)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Franciszek Piesik – from the Oder to the Nieder Neuendorfer See

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  Memorial steles for Peter Kreitlow and Franciszek Piesik on the Havel bank in Hennigsdorf (2013)

  Photo: Christian Gering. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Peter Kreitlow – shot by Soviet soldiers near Nieder Neuendorf

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  The memorial steles for Franciszek Piesik and Peter Kreitlow beside the Berlin Wall Trail near the Schwimmhafenwiese, Hennigsdorf (2013)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Peter Kreitlow – shot by Soviet soldiers near Nieder Neuendorf

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  Memorial cross for Karl-Heinz Kube at Berlepschstraße, Berlin-Zehlendorf (2012)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Karl-Heinz Kube shot near the Teltow harbour

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  Memorial steles for Karl-Heinz Kube and Peter Mädler at Zehlendorfer Straße, Teltow, with flowers laid at their foot (2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Karl-Heinz Kube shot near the Teltow harbour

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  Memorial steles for Karl-Heinz Kube and Peter Mädler at Zehlendorfer Straße, Teltow, with flowers laid at their foot (2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Peter Mädler – 'Don't shoot!' in the Teltow Canal

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  Glass memorial panel for Dieter Brandes of the "Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer" at Gartenstraße/Julie-Wolfthorn-Straße by the former Nordbahnhof, Berlin-Mitte (2022)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Dieter Brandes – shot at the Nordbahnhof, died months later

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  Memorial stele for Eduard Wroblewski on the Berlin Wall Trail at Blankenfelde-Mahlow, by the former S-Bahn line to Lichtenrade (2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Eduard Wroblewski – 274 shots at Mahlow

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  The memorial stele for Eduard Wroblewski on the Berlin Wall Trail in Mahlow (2014)

  Photo: Josef Papi. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Eduard Wroblewski – 274 shots at Mahlow

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  Memorial stele for Eberhard Schulz at Kölner Damm, Großziethen, near the former border with Berlin-Rudow (2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Eberhard Schulz shot after standing up to surrender

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  Memorial cross for Willi Block in Staaken, Berlin-Spandau, near the former border crossing (2009)

  Photo: Pemba.mpimaji. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Willi Block – trapped in the wire and shot at Staaken

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  Detail of the memorial cross for Willi Block in Staaken, inscribed "Willi Block † 7.2.66" (2009)

  Photo: Pemba.mpimaji. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Willi Block – trapped in the wire and shot at Staaken

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  Memorial cross for Willi Marzahn at Königsweg 326, Berlin-Wannsee, near Kohlhasenbrück (2010)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two NCOs run for the border at Kohlhasenbrück – one gets through

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  Memorial steles for Peter Böhme, Jörgen Schmidtchen and Willi Marzahn at Stubenrauchstraße 35, Potsdam-Babelsberg (2020)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two NCOs run for the border at Kohlhasenbrück – one gets through

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  Memorial stele for Christian Buttkus in the woods by the Stahnsdorfer Damm near Kleinmachnow (2012)

  Photo: Anszu. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Christian Buttkus – a snowstorm escape at Kleinmachnow

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  Memorial stone to the victims of German division at Berlepschstraße/Karl-Marx-Straße on the Berlin–Kleinmachnow boundary, with a rust-brown panel naming victims who died nearby (2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Christian Buttkus – a snowstorm escape at Kleinmachnow

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  Memorial stele for Klaus Garten at Paul-Gerhardt-Straße, Teltow-Seehof (2023)

  Photo: Lukas Beck. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus Garten – left to bleed in the vehicle ditch

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  Memorial stone to the victims of German division at Berlepschstraße/Karl-Marx-Straße on the Berlin–Kleinmachnow boundary, with a rust-brown panel naming victims who died nearby, among them Walter Kittel (2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Walter Kittel – killed after surrendering at Kleinmachnow

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  The wooden memorial cross for Heinz Sokolowski at the corner of Ebertstraße and Scheidemannstraße, West Berlin, in 1988 while the Wall still stood

  Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Heinz Sokolowski – shot at the Wall near the Brandenburg Gate

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  The memorial cross for Heinz Sokolowski in front of the White Crosses at Ebertstraße, Berlin-Tiergarten (2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Heinz Sokolowski – shot at the Wall near the Brandenburg Gate

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  Glass memorial panels at Kiefholzstraße 79, Berlin-Plänterwald, naming Heinz Jercha, Walter Hayn, Erich Kühn, Gerald Thiem, René Gross and Manfred Mäder, who died along this stretch of the border (2011)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Walter Hayn shot beside the 'Sorgenfrei' allotments

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  Glass memorial panels at Kiefholzstraße 79, Berlin-Plänterwald, naming Heinz Jercha, Walter Hayn, Erich Kühn, Gerald Thiem, René Gross and Manfred Mäder, who died along this stretch of the border (2011)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Erich Kühn shot 'blindly into the bushes' at Kiefholzstraße

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  The Heinrich-Heine-Straße border crossing seen from the West Berlin side in August 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Heinz Schöneberger – escape helper shot at Heinrich-Heine-Straße

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  The Heinrich-Heine-Straße crossing at the corner of Sebastianstraße on 3 July 1990, shortly before the border installations were removed

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Heinz Schöneberger – escape helper shot at Heinrich-Heine-Straße

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  Glass memorial panel of the "Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer" at Chris-Gueffroy-Allee 20, Berlin-Baumschulenweg, telling the stories of Hans-Joachim Wolf, Werner Kühl and Chris Gueffroy at the Britz branch canal (2014)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Hans-Joachim Wolf shot in the Britzer Zweigkanal

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  Glass memorial panel at Klemkestraße, Berlin-Reinickendorf, naming Horst Frank and Wernhard Mispelhorn, both shot at the Schönholz allotments, and two later victims (2016)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Wernhard Mispelhorn shot at the Schönholz allotments

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  Memorial cross for Horst Frank at Klemkestraße, Berlin-Reinickendorf, dedicated "Zum Gedenken aller Mauertoten" (2016)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Horst Frank – caught in the last wire at Schönholz

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  Glass memorial panel at Klemkestraße, Berlin-Reinickendorf, naming Horst Frank and Wernhard Mispelhorn, both shot at the Schönholz allotments, and two later victims (2016)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Horst Frank – caught in the last wire at Schönholz

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  Memorial steles of the "Gedenkzeichen für die Todesopfer an der Berliner Mauer" at Lankestraße 2, Klein Glienicke, for Rainer Gneiser, Rolf Henniger, Horst Körner, Günter Wiedenhöft and Norbert Wolscht (2023)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Norbert Wolscht and Rainer Gneiser – homemade diving gear in the Havel

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  Memorial steles of the "Gedenkzeichen für die Todesopfer an der Berliner Mauer" at Lankestraße 2, Klein Glienicke, for Rainer Gneiser, Rolf Henniger, Horst Körner, Günter Wiedenhöft and Norbert Wolscht (2023)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Günter Wiedenhöft – through the ice of the Griebnitzsee

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  Memorial steles for Horst Kutscher and Johannes Sprenger on the Berlin Wall Trail in Berlin-Altglienicke (2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Horst Kutscher – shot 25 metres from West Berlin

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  Memorial stone "Den Opfern der Mauer" at Bernauer Straße 69–70, Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, listing Dietmar Schulz among the victims (2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Dietmar Schulz – killed on the S-Bahn tracks north of Bornholmer Straße

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  Memorial stone "Den Opfern der Mauer" at Bernauer Straße 69–70, Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, listing Ottfried Reck among the victims (2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Otfried Reck – the S-Bahn tunnel plan

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  Glass memorial panel on the May-Ayim-Ufer, Berlin-Kreuzberg, naming people who died in and by the Spree here, including Philipp Held (2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Philipp Held – a West German who could not get back

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  The White Crosses at Ebertstraße in 2005, including the cross for Philipp Held beside those for Werner Probst, Ingo Krüger and Axel Hannemann

  Photo: Krzysztof Blachnicki. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Philipp Held – a West German who could not get back

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  White crosses by the Spree near the Reichstag in January 1974; the cross for Axel Hannemann is at the left edge, with the river and East Berlin behind

  Photo: Andreas Schwarzkopf. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Axel Hannemann – from a cargo barge into the Spree

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  The White Crosses on Paul-Löbe-Allee by the Reichstag in July 1990, including the crosses for Axel Hannemann and Ingo Krüger

  Photo: Dietmar Rabich. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Axel Hannemann – from a cargo barge into the Spree

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  The White Crosses on Paul-Löbe-Allee by the Reichstag in July 1990, including the cross for Ingo Krüger

  Photo: Dietmar Rabich. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Ingo Krüger – a diver's attempt to reach his fiancée

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  The White Crosses at Ebertstraße in 2005, including the cross for Ingo Krüger († 10.12.1961)

  Photo: Krzysztof Blachnicki. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Ingo Krüger – a diver's attempt to reach his fiancée

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  The White Crosses at Ebertstraße, Berlin-Tiergarten, including a cross for Lutz Haberlandt (2015)

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Lutz Haberlandt – shot at the Charité

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  The "White Crosses" memorial on the Spree bank by the Reichstag (Reichstagufer/Friedrich-Ebert-Platz), including the cross for Erna Kelm (2022)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Erna Kelm – swimming belt under her clothes

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  The "White Crosses" memorial on the Spree bank by the Reichstag (Reichstagufer/Friedrich-Ebert-Platz), including the cross for Dorit Schmiel (2022)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Dorit Schmiel – five friends crawl towards Reinickendorf

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  The former death strip at Friedhof Pankow VII in Rosenthal, where Dorit Schmiel and her companions tried to escape in 1962, seen in 2015

  Photo: Brewer Bob. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Dorit Schmiel – five friends crawl towards Reinickendorf

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  The "White Crosses" memorial on the Spree bank by the Reichstag (Reichstagufer/Friedrich-Ebert-Platz), including the cross for Hildegard Trabant (2022)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Hildegard Trabant shot in the back on the disused S-Bahn line

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  The former death strip inside the Invalidenfriedhof, Berlin-Mitte, with a surviving section of the inner Wall on the left (2013)

  Photo: Norbert Radtke (Dramburg). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Walter Heike shot at the Invalidenfriedhof

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  Remains of the inner Wall at the Invalidenfriedhof, Berlin-Mitte, with the former death strip beside it (2013)

  Photo: Norbert Radtke (Dramburg). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Walter Heike shot at the Invalidenfriedhof

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  Remains of the inner Wall at the Invalidenfriedhof, Berlin-Mitte, next to the Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal where the shooting of May 1962 took place (2013)

  Photo: Norbert Radtke (Dramburg). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Wilfried Tews swims the canal – border guard Peter Göring killed

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  The Heilandskirche at Sacrow seen from the Havel in May 1989, when the church stood in the East German border strip; an East German border buoy floats in front

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Lothar Lehmann – a young policeman swims from Sacrow

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  Memorial steles for Horst Plischke and Herbert Mende at Berliner Straße 86, Potsdam, near the Glienicke Bridge (2020)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Horst Plischke – missing in the Havel for four months

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  Memorial steles for Georg Feldhahn and Siegfried Widera by the Teltow Canal at the Massantebrücke, Berlin-Baumschulenweg (2013)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Georg Feldhahn – a border policeman's escape at the Massante Bridge

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  Memorial of the 'Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer' on Kiefholzstraße in Plänterwald, naming René Gross and Manfred Mäder among the Wall victims of this border section (photographed December 2011, shortly after it was unveiled)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Manfred Mäder and René Gross – lifting-platform truck at Karpfenteichstraße

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  Memorial stele for Hans-Jürgen Starrost on the Berliner Mauerweg between Lichterfelde and Teltow, near where he was shot in April 1981 (photographed 2018)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Hans-Jürgen Starrost shot during capture at Sigridshorst

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  The railway beneath the Bösebrücke at Bornholmer Straße today; while the Wall stood, these tracks ran through the border strip between Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding (2024)

  Photo: Ubahnverleih. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Thomas Taubmann jumps from a freight train under the Bösebrücke

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  Memorial stele for Herbert Kiebler on the Mauerweg in Blankenfelde-Mahlow, near the place where he was shot in June 1975 (photographed 2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Herbert Kiebler shot near Mahlow; death disguised as suicide

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  The Wall along Zimmerstraße seen from the West Berlin viewing platform at the corner of Wilhelmstraße, 1988, with the border strip and a watchtower on the East Berlin side

  Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Herbert Halli shot while turning back at Zimmerstraße

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  Zimmerstraße on the West Berlin side of the Wall in 1988; the building behind stands on the East Berlin side at the corner of Wilhelmstraße

  Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Herbert Halli shot while turning back at Zimmerstraße

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  Friedrichstraße looking north from Kochstraße towards Checkpoint Charlie, 23 February 1973, less than a year before Burkhard Niering's attempt

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Burkhard Niering's hostage escape attempt at Checkpoint Charlie

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  Memorial panel on Klemkestraße in Reinickendorf, by the former border with Pankow, naming Horst Einsiedel, who was shot at the Städtischer Friedhof Pankow on 15 March 1973 (photographed 2016)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Horst Einsiedel shot on a ladder at Pankow cemetery

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  The second panel of the Klemkestraße memorial, telling the stories of the four people killed on this stretch of the border, including Horst Einsiedel (photographed 2016)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Horst Einsiedel shot on a ladder at Pankow cemetery

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  White crosses for victims of the Wall on the West Berlin bank of the Spree beside the Reichstag, January 1974, nine months after Manfred Gertzki was shot on the river bank nearby

  Photo: Andreas Schwarzkopf. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Manfred Gertzki's armoured escape attempt at the Reichstag

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  Memorial stele for Holger H., the youngest victim of the Berlin Wall, on Stahnsdorfer Damm in Kleinmachnow near the former Drewitz-Dreilinden crossing (photographed 2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on 15-month-old Holger H. suffocates during his parents' escape

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  The former western Dreilinden checkpoint (Checkpoint Bravo) on the transit autobahn today, where the crates were opened after passing the Drewitz crossing (2025)

  Photo: JoachimKohler-HB. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on 15-month-old Holger H. suffocates during his parents' escape

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  Memorial cross for Horst Kullack on Wittelsbacher Straße in Lichtenrade (photographed 2009)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Horst Kullack shot on New Year's Eve at Großziethen

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  Memorial stele for Horst Kullack on Lichtenrader Chaussee in Großziethen (photographed 2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Horst Kullack shot on New Year's Eve at Großziethen

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  Memorial steles for Helmut Kliem and Klaus Schulze in the Spandauer Forst at Hakenfelde, on the former border opposite Falkensee (photographed 2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Klaus Schulze killed, Dieter Krause escapes at Falkenhöh

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  Memorial panel on Kiefholzstraße in Plänterwald for Wolfgang Glöde, Jörg Hartmann, Lothar Schleusener and Christian Peter Friese, who was shot at the Köllnische Heide railway embankment on 25 December 1970 (photographed 2014)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Christian Peter Friese shot on Christmas night at Köllnische Heide

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  Memorial steles for Christel and Eckhard Wehage and for Lutz Schmidt in the Landschaftspark Rudow-Altglienicke, near Schönefeld airport (photographed 2013)

  Photo: SCIdude. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on Christel and Eckhard Wehage's attempted hijacking of an Interflug plane

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  The text panel for Christel and Eckhard Wehage on their memorial stele in the Landschaftspark Rudow-Altglienicke (photographed 2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Christel and Eckhard Wehage's attempted hijacking of an Interflug plane

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  The neo-Gothic chapel of Klein Glienicke (1880), whose roof the two roofers were repairing in 1965 (photographed 2009)

  Photo: Manfred Brückels. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Roofers escape from the Klein Glienicke chapel

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  The East German control area at Checkpoint Charlie in 1987, the ground the young fitter sprinted across a year earlier

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on Telecom fitter runs through Checkpoint Charlie

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  View over the Wall and the East German installations at Checkpoint Charlie from the West Berlin side, August 1985

  Photo: Akitoshi Iio. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Telecom fitter runs through Checkpoint Charlie

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  Friedrichstraße station in East Berlin at night during a thunderstorm, 4 September 1961, a month before Carl-August von Halle was arrested there

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-86069-0001 / Irene Eckleben. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Sewer escape helper Carl-August von Halle walks into a Stasi trap

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  Friedrichstraße station in June 1990, while it was still a border station, as work began to reconnect the S-Bahn lines cut in 1961

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Sewer escape helper Carl-August von Halle walks into a Stasi trap

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  GDR passport and customs officers checking cars at the Drewitz crossing on the transit route to West Berlin, 31 March 1972

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0331-0005 / Hartmut Reiche. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Escape helper Hartmut Richter caught at Drewitz with his sister in the boot

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  The barrier wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on 20 November 1961, three months after a worker sent to put flower bowls on it escaped

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-88222-0002 / Sturm, Horst. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Sent to put flower bowls on the Wall

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  The Britzer Verbindungskanal (formerly Britzer Zweigkanal) at Baumschulenweg in 2008; the canal formed the sector border here, and the 1961 dinghy crossing was a little further along at Johannisthal

  Photo: André Karwath aka Aka. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Used on An inflatable dinghy across the Britzer Zweigkanal

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  A hall of the former Bergmann works (VEB Bergmann-Borsig) in Wilhelmsruh, photographed in 2022; the works locomotive set off from this plant in August 1961

  Photo: Ubahnverleih. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on The works locomotive that stopped on the line

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  Köpenicker Straße in Kreuzberg ending at the Wall by Bethaniendamm in October 1986, near where the street's short-lived crossing point stood in August 1961

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The flower-box lorry at Köpenicker Straße

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  The Teltow Canal at the Massantebrücke in 2024, looking north-west; the policeman swam across about 200 metres west of the bridge in 1961

  Photo: Krib. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A police sergeant swims the Teltow Canal

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  The Heidekampgraben between the railway line and Dammweg in 2011; this drainage ditch formed the sector border south-east of the Sonnenallee crossing

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Three wires cut at the Heidekampgraben

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  The border strip at the corner of Liesenstraße and Gartenstraße in January 1987, seen over the Wall from Wedding, with a watchtower and an S-Bahn train crossing

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two policemen climb out of the Liesenstraße cemetery

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  Surviving section of the Berlin Wall on Liesenstraße, built on top of the old brick wall of the St. Hedwig cemetery (2008)

  Photo: Beek100. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two masons sent to measure the wall climb it

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  West Berlin visitors queuing at the Sonnenallee crossing point on 5 January 1964

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C0105-0003-001 / Stöhr. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A policeman crawls under the wire at mealtime

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  The Invalidenstraße border crossing at the Sandkrugbrücke in 1987, seen from West Berlin; the Charité grounds lay just beyond it on the East Berlin side

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The person in the white coat from the Charité

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  The Wall along Boyenstraße in June 1989, seen from Chausseestraße in West Berlin; the houses behind it were in East Berlin

  Photo: Gtelloke. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Over the wall at Boyenstraße, then a photo

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  Bronze plate and cobblestone line marking the course of the Wall in Boyenstraße at the corner of Chausseestraße (2005)

  Photo: Angela Monika Arnold, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A cement lorry through the wall in Boyenstraße

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  Harzer Straße on the Neukölln–Treptow border in November 1986, with the Wall on the left in front of the East Berlin houses

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Both legs broken: a jump from Harzer Straße 110

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  The disused autobahn bridge over the Teltow Canal at Dreilinden in 2009; until 1969 the transit route and its control points ran across here

  Photo: Biberbaer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A border guard is shot down 15 metres from the line at Dreilinden

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  The abandoned stretch of the old transit autobahn at Albrechts Teerofen, cut off by the Wall, in March 1988; until 1969 traffic from Drewitz crossed into West Berlin on this road

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The armoured bus of Boxing Day

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  A West Berlin tram at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, two months after the boy's jump; on the right are the East Berlin border houses with bricked-up windows, the row that included no. 44

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A nine-year-old jumps from the roof of Bernauer Straße 44

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  The Spree seen from Kreuzberg in November 1987, with a pier of the destroyed Brommy Bridge in front and the Wall on the East Berlin bank

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Pulled out of the Spree 15 metres from the line

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  The Behala Viktoria warehouse on the Kreuzberg bank of the Spree (2012)

  Photo: Jörg Zägel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Pulled out of the Spree 15 metres from the line

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  Bahnhof Friedrichstraße on 16 July 1964, the year the pupils jumped onto the Moscow–Paris Express behind the station

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C0716-0001-004 / Hans-Joachim Spremberg. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Jumping onto the Moscow–Paris Express behind Friedrichstraße

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  Memorial on the May-Ayim-Ufer in Kreuzberg listing people who died at the Spree border, including Wolf-Olaf Muszynski (2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Wolf-Olaf Muszynski drowns in the Spree, presumably while trying to escape

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  The railway beneath the Bösebrücke at Bornholmer Straße in 2024; while the Wall stood, the S-Bahn tracks here ran through the border area

  Photo: Ubahnverleih. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A jump from a moving S-Bahn at Bornholmer Straße

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  The Spree seen from the Reichstag bank in August 1990, with the Wall still standing on the far, East Berlin bank and the Charité tower behind

  Photo: Robert Hösle. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Four swim the Spree by the Reichstag as West Berliners watch

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing in January 1990, two months after the Wall opened

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Over the barrier at Chausseestraße in front of western cameras

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  The former GDR border watchtower on the Havel shore at Nieder Neuendorf, seen from the river (2018)

  Photo: Leonhard Lenz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A border policeman steals patrol boat G-65 on the Havel

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  An East German armoured water cannon in a passage of the Brandenburg Gate, behind a sign reading 'Achtung! Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin', August 1961 – weeks before the Barkas van broke through

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 173-1282 / Helmut J. Wolf. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A Barkas van breaks through at the Brandenburg Gate

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  Armed East German Kampfgruppen members and armoured vehicles blocking the Brandenburg Gate in 1961

  Photo: U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) (Most Recent) U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. Visual Services Branch. Photo Library. (1953 - 1977) (Predecessor) International Communications Agency. Press and Publications Service. Publications Division. (1978 - 1982) (Predeces. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on A Barkas van breaks through at the Brandenburg Gate

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  The Wall across the road at the Obere Freiarchenbrücke, where Kreuzberg's Schlesische Straße met the Puschkinallee in Treptow, seen from West Berlin in April 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two guards let a woman with a baby through at the Puschkinallee

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  The Obere Freiarchenbrücke over the Flutgraben on the Kreuzberg–Treptow border, October 1986

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two guards let a woman with a baby through at the Puschkinallee

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  Memorial made from helicopter rotor blades at the former US Army landing site in Steinstücken, Am Landeplatz (2011)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on US Army helicopters fly seven refugees out of Steinstücken

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  Bilingual plaques at the Steinstücken helicopter memorial: the US Forces' landing site served the exclave from August 1961 until 31 December 1976 (2011)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on US Army helicopters fly seven refugees out of Steinstücken

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  The Heinrich-Heine-Straße crossing seen from the West Berlin viewing platform in June 1965, with the new East Berlin housing blocks right beside the Wall

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A Tatra crane lorry breaks through at Heinrich-Heine-Straße

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  Visitors leaving the control booths at the Bahnhof Friedrichstraße crossing, 31 October 1964

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1031-0044-012 / Hans-Joachim Spremberg. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on The borrowed identity card: a wife crosses on a stranger's papers

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  Passport-control booths at the Bahnhof Friedrichstraße crossing, 31 October 1964

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1031-0044-009 / Hans-Joachim Spremberg. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A 'lost' Danish passport at Friedrichstraße

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  Aerial view of the snow-covered border strip between Schönholz (top) and Reinickendorf (bottom), March 1980; the Provinzstraße, cut by the strip, passes under the railway at bottom right

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on 75 shots miss – and the escaper is caught in a hallway on Provinzstraße

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  The Wall along Schwedter Straße, near Korsörer Straße, looking towards Gleimstraße, March 1990

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A rope over the Wall at Korsörer Straße – held by West Berlin policemen

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  Surviving section of the border fence and Wall segments in the park at Groß Glienicke, now a memorial site (c. 2015)

  Photo: Lichterfelder. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on 110 bottles of hydrogen and a plastic balloon – then two families climb the fence at Groß Glienicke

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  Köpenicker Straße looking towards the Schillingbrücke in April 1990, with a Wall segment still standing and the brick waterworks pumping station on Holzmarktstraße across the river

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Over the waterworks wall and onto the Schillingbrücke – 46 shots

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  GDR border guards checking West Berlin cars in the lanes of the Sonnenallee crossing, 4 January 1964

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C0104-0010-001 / Stöhr. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A West Berlin police sergeant with a woman under his back seat

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  The site of the former Staaken/Heerstraße crossing today, with information steles and a sign marking where Germany and Europe were divided until 10 November 1989 (2014)

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two young women in a car boot at Staaken

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  US security policemen salute a car with diplomatic plates at Checkpoint Charlie, 19 August 1982

  Photo: Thomas Farr. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on A Costa Rican diplomat's Ford Escort at Checkpoint Charlie

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  The transit autobahn between Checkpoint Bravo and the GDR's Drewitz checkpoint in 1987, with the separate 'Military' lane for Allied vehicles

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on An Erfurt dentist family in a US Army Ford – the six-hour stand-off at Drewitz

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  The 'Allied Checkpoint Bravo' sign on the bridge building at Dreilinden, the Western end of the Drewitz crossing, 1987

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on An Erfurt dentist family in a US Army Ford – the six-hour stand-off at Drewitz

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  Looking south from the Königswegbrücke towards the Drewitz checkpoint in 1987: the transit autobahn with its 'Military' lane and the border wall beyond

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two dentists and their son in the boot of a US Army Volvo

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  The GDR control area at Checkpoint Charlie in June 1988, a month before the escape attempt, with its pedestrian entrance and vehicle lanes

  Photo: Unknown photographer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Over the gate and into the control area at Checkpoint Charlie

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  Checkpoint Charlie at night in 1988, seen over the Wall from the western side

  Photo: Roland Arhelger. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Over the gate and into the control area at Checkpoint Charlie

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  Uniformed GDR passport controllers check queues of West Berlin cars under the canopy of the Drewitz crossing on the transit autobahn, March 1972

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0331-0007 / Hartmut Reiche. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A family of three in the boot of a West Berlin car at Drewitz

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  GDR controllers checking transit traffic at the Drewitz crossing near Potsdam on 31 March 1972, the same year the trailer was stopped here

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0331-0005 / Hartmut Reiche. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A head waiter hidden in a car trailer at Drewitz

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  The transit autobahn between West Berlin's Dreilinden checkpoint and the GDR's Drewitz crossing, seen from the Königswegbrücke in 1987, with the border wall along the far side

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A car rams the closed gate at Drewitz

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  Visitors leaving the border crossing at Friedrichstraße station on 18 May 1972, under a sign pointing 'to the S-Bahn in all directions and to the U-Bahn'

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0518-0036 / Horst Sturm. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Stasi officer Werner Stiller walks out through the Friedrichstraße agents' gate

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  Visitors with umbrellas crowd the forecourt of the Friedrichstraße station border crossing in the rain, 20 May 1972

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0520-0020 / Horst Sturm. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A Danish tour guide, a doctored passport and a 16-year-old from Rostock

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  Visitors leaving the border crossing at Friedrichstraße station on 18 May 1972; the courier was arrested at this crossing in 1976

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0518-0036 / Horst Sturm. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Refugees in the boot of an embassy car: the Zaire attaché and the ARAMCO network

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  West Berlin cars queue for passport and customs checks under the canopy of the Invalidenstraße crossing, 20 May 1972

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0520-0019 / Kutscher (verehe. Kubiziel), Sig. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Look-alikes for hire: the Dawid organisation's couriers arrested in Potsdam

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  The Heinrich-Heine-Straße crossing between Kreuzberg and Mitte in June 1965, with concrete chicanes forcing cars to slow down

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Two cars stopped in one night at Heinrich-Heine-Straße

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  Checkpoint Charlie on the Friedrichstraße, seen from the American side on 19 August 1963, a year before the Renault was stopped

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Two Spanish workers and a hidden Pankow man at Checkpoint Charlie

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  The high-rise blocks of the Leipziger Straße rising behind the Wall, seen from the corner of Charlottenstraße and Zimmerstraße in West Berlin, November 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two hang gliders on a tower-block roof in the Leipziger Straße

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  The 23- and 25-storey residential towers on the south side of the Leipziger Straße, seen from Spittelmarkt in May 1986

  Photo: Jörg Blobelt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two hang gliders on a tower-block roof in the Leipziger Straße

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  The 23- and 25-storey residential towers on the south side of the Leipziger Straße, seen from Spittelmarkt in May 1986

  Photo: Jörg Blobelt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A window cleaner's hang glider, carried to night practice by public transport

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  The 23- and 25-storey residential towers on the south side of the Leipziger Straße, seen from Spittelmarkt in May 1986, six months before the attempt

  Photo: Jörg Blobelt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Volkmar Kienöl and Klaus Kuschmierz try to glide to the Springer building

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  The Leipziger Straße towers rising behind the Wall, seen from the corner of Charlottenstraße and Zimmerstraße in West Berlin, November 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Volkmar Kienöl and Klaus Kuschmierz try to glide to the Springer building

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  A GDR watchtower still standing on the cleared border strip at the Engelbecken and Leuschnerdamm in August 1990, months after the Wall opened

  Photo: Robert Hösle. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A stolen army workshop lorry through the Wall at Leuschnerdamm

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  The Leuschnerdamm in 2009; the patched holes in the cobbles mark where the Wall stood from 1961 to 1990

  Photo: Uwca. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A stolen army workshop lorry through the Wall at Leuschnerdamm

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  The Havel at Sacrow seen from the West Berlin side on 1 May 1989: the border ran down the middle of the river, and the Wall stood behind the Heilandskirche on the Sacrow shore

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Rita Bergemann and Michael Reck swim the Havel from Sacrow

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  The former GDR border watchtower at Nieder Neuendorf, seen from the Havel (2018); it now houses the exhibition that tells Ziegler and Kohl's story

  Photo: Leonhard Lenz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two trainees swim through the ice floes of the Nieder Neuendorfer See

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  The Wall around Klein Glienicke, looking into the Tannenstraße from the West Berlin side (Böttcherberg), April 1988

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Peter Mindorf flees from his post in Klein Glienicke

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  Meadows of the Eiskeller, the former West Berlin enclave in Spandau, seen from the Berlin Wall Trail in 2015

  Photo: Kvikk. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A volunteer fireman slips away through the Eiskeller

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  The manhole cover inscribed 'Einstieg zur Freiheit' (entrance to freedom) in front of Neue Grünstraße 16, marking the sewer escape route (2022)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on 'Glockengasse 4711': the sewer route under the Alte Jakobstraße

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  The Wall and border strip along the Heidelberger Straße between Neukölln and Treptow, seen from the West in November 1986

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Franzke brothers' first tunnel in the Heidelberger Straße is betrayed

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  The Wall and border strip along the Heidelberger Straße between Neukölln and Treptow in November 1986, long after the tunnelling era here had ended

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A second tunnel from Heidelberger Straße 35 – Boris Franzke's last

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  The former clearance building of the Marschallbrücke water border crossing on the Spree at Schiffbauerdamm (2009)

  Photo: Jörg Zägel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Henri Weise found drowned in the Spree at the Marschallbrücke

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  A GDR border troops patrol boat on the Spree near the Oberbaumbrücke crossing in 1987, with the Wall along the Friedrichshain bank

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Peter Grohganz drowns in the winter Spree

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  Memorial stele for Rolf-Dieter Kabelitz on the Berlin Wall Trail between Frohnau and Bergfelde (2014)

  Photo: Josef Papi. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Rolf-Dieter Kabelitz – shot in the snow at Bergfelde

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  The Wall and a watchtower along the railway at Staaken in October 1986, seen from West Berlin as a transit train from Hamburg passes; in 1961 the GDR's Staaken station lay on this line just beyond the border

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on An engine driver uses the night shunting at Staaken station

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  The old Späthstraßenbrücke of 1906 over the Teltow Canal between Baumschulenweg and Britz, photographed in 2009; in 1961 the canal here was the sector border

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Under fire across the Teltow Canal at the Späthbrücke, a day after Roland Hoff

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  The Teltow Canal at the old Späthstraßenbrücke in summer 2007

  Photo: Jwnabd. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Under fire across the Teltow Canal at the Späthbrücke, a day after Roland Hoff

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, now part of the Berlin Wall Memorial; in August 1961 Brunnenstraße could still be crossed here for about ten days after the border was sealed

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Dr. G. rides an ambulance through the Brunnenstraße crossing and stays in the West

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  A double row of cobbles with a plate reading 'Berliner Mauer 1961–1989' marks the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Dr. G. rides an ambulance through the Brunnenstraße crossing and stays in the West

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, now part of the Berlin Wall Memorial

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Peter Hohmann sprints past the guards at Brunnenstraße

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  A double row of cobbles with a plate reading 'Berliner Mauer 1961–1989' marks the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Peter Hohmann sprints past the guards at Brunnenstraße

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, now part of the Berlin Wall Memorial

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Shots stop an escape at Brunnenstraße

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  A double row of cobbles with a plate reading 'Berliner Mauer 1961–1989' marks the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Shots stop an escape at Brunnenstraße

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, now part of the Berlin Wall Memorial

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus-Peter K. is caught on the patrol road

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  A double row of cobbles with a plate reading 'Berliner Mauer 1961–1989' marks the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus-Peter K. is caught on the patrol road

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, now part of the Berlin Wall Memorial

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Gabriela M. tries to escape while East Berlin demonstrates

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  A double row of cobbles with a plate reading 'Berliner Mauer 1961–1989' marks the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Gabriela M. tries to escape while East Berlin demonstrates

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in May 2015; a gable wall at the corner carries the Berlin Wall Memorial's mural of a 1961 photograph

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Dieter T. and four friends fail at Ackerstraße 43

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  The border strip at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1989, seen over the Wall from the Bernauer Straße side

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, ddr-fotograf.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Dieter T. and four friends fail at Ackerstraße 43

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  The border strip at Ackerstraße in 1989, seen over the Wall from Bernauer Straße: patrol road, watchtower, fence and the inner wall facing East Berlin

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, ddr-fotograf.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Martin M. reaches the watchtower at Ackerstraße

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  Ackerstraße and the preserved watchtower and border strip of the Berlin Wall Memorial, seen from above in June 2013

  Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Martin M. reaches the watchtower at Ackerstraße

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Ruppiner Straße on 19 August 1963, with the border houses' windows bricked up

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Johannes M. offers a guard a thousand marks at Ruppiner Straße

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  The Bernauer Straße / Ruppiner Straße junction in 2007

  Photo: Andreas Thum. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Johannes M. offers a guard a thousand marks at Ruppiner Straße

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Ruppiner Straße on 19 August 1963, the year Jürgen B. was arrested here, with the border houses' windows bricked up

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Jürgen B. is caught past the wire at Ruppiner Straße

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  The Bernauer Straße / Ruppiner Straße junction in 2007

  Photo: Andreas Thum. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Jürgen B. is caught past the wire at Ruppiner Straße

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Ruppiner Straße on 19 August 1963, a few metres from where Schönholzer Straße meets Ruppiner Straße

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Detlef M. and Herbert Z. try the Wall at Ruppiner Straße

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  The preserved section of the border wall on Bernauer Straße, seen from the Sophien cemetery side in January 2008, in what is now area A of the Berlin Wall Memorial

  Photo: Beek100. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Karl-Heinz M. is caught past the inner wall

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  Dismantled segments of the outer wall on the Sophien cemetery in January 2008, with parts of the original inner wall (Hinterlandmauer) still standing behind them

  Photo: Beek100. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Karl-Heinz M. is caught past the inner wall

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  Wolliner Straße in East Berlin seen over the Wall from Bernauer Straße in 1982, three years after Mario E.'s attempt there

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Mario E. gets away from the guards, then is caught by the police

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  The Wall across the end of Wolliner Straße at Bernauer Straße on 9 June 1965, with the street signs and West Berlin warning notices

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Mario E. gets away from the guards, then is caught by the police

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  The Teltow Canal between Johannisthal (right) and Rudow (left), seen from the A113 bridge in May 2023; the canal here was the sector border, but the exact spot where Manfred Wenzel swam is not known

  Photo: Lukas Beck. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Manfred Wenzel swims the Teltow Canal on the first evening

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  The former Heidekrautbahn line beside Uhlandstraße in Rosenthal, looking north towards Wilhelmsruher Damm in November 2013; the Wall stood along this strip, now grown over with trees

  Photo: Günter Haase. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Annemarie Salzmann crawls through the wire at the Heidekrautbahn embankment

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  The old Heidekrautbahn line at Wilhelmsruher Damm in Rosenthal in November 2013, looking south towards the Märkisches Viertel; a remnant of the railway lay in the border strip here

  Photo: Günter Haase. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Annemarie Salzmann crawls through the wire at the Heidekrautbahn embankment

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  Harzer Straße on the Neukölln–Treptow border in November 1986, with the Wall on the left in front of the East Berlin houses

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Renate Reich crosses at Harzer Straße on a forged identity card

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  An East German armoured water cannon in a passage of the Brandenburg Gate behind a sign reading 'Achtung! Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin', August 1961, the month Gerd Sommerlatte was posted to border duty here

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 173-1282 / Helmut J. Wolf. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Policeman Gerd Sommerlatte flees at the Brandenburg Gate and is kidnapped back

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  The Mauerpark in March 2007, laid out on the former border strip beside the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, whose floodlight masts stand on the right

  Photo: Franz Richter ( User:FRZ ). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Klaus Gomert at the Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark – shot at, arrested, then expelled to the West

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  A surviving stretch of the inner border wall in the Mauerpark, covered in graffiti, beside a floodlight mast of the Jahn-Sportpark (2011)

  Photo: Stadtpoetin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Klaus Gomert at the Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark – shot at, arrested, then expelled to the West

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  Friedrichstraße looking north from Kochstraße towards Checkpoint Charlie on 23 February 1973, a year and a half before William Medley's car was held here

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A US soldier is stopped at Checkpoint Charlie with two East Germans

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  The Allied checkpoint at Checkpoint Charlie in May 1977 (US Department of Defense photo)

  Photo: HELGA T.H. MELLMANN. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on A US soldier is stopped at Checkpoint Charlie with two East Germans

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  The Allied checkpoint at Checkpoint Charlie in May 1977, two years before Joerg Habermann drove the US ambassador's car through with his wife and daughter in the boot (US Department of Defense photo)

  Photo: HELGA T.H. MELLMANN. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on The US ambassador's chauffeur smuggles his family out in the official car

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  The platforms of Staaken station on the West Berlin side in October 1986; the S-Bahn ran here until 1980, and in April 1978 the wounded 19-year-old turned up at this station

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A 19-year-old reaches Staaken with a bullet wound in his hand

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  The Wall and a watchtower along the railway at Staaken in October 1986, seen from West Berlin as a transit train from Hamburg passes

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A 19-year-old reaches Staaken with a bullet wound in his hand

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  The Heidekampgraben among the allotment gardens between the railway and the Dammweg in 2011; the sector border between Treptow and Neukölln followed this ditch past the Kiefholzstraße allotments

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A hairdresser cuts the wire at the Kiefholzstraße allotments for his daughter

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  The Heidekampgraben among the allotment gardens between the railway and the Dammweg in 2011; the sector border followed this ditch past the Kiefholzstraße allotments

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Manfred Roseneit leaves his scooter at the Kiefholzstraße fence

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  The Heidekampgraben near the Dammweg in 2011; the sector border between Treptow and Neukölln followed this ditch

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A patrolman excuses himself at Kiefholzstraße and does not come back

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  The Heidekampgraben between the railway and the Dammweg in 2011; the sector border followed this ditch past the Dammweg control point

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on West Berlin youths cut the fence at the Dammweg for a woman and her child

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  The Wall along Kiefholzstraße at the Ringbahn's Beschaubrücke in November 1986, seen from Neukölln

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A night patrol at Kiefholzstraße does not come back

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  The Wall along Kiefholzstraße at the Ringbahn's Beschaubrücke in November 1986, seen from Neukölln

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two patrolmen at Kiefholzstraße had told their comrades the day before

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  The Wall along Kiefholzstraße by the Treptow goods yard and the Ringbahn's Beschaubrücke, November 1986

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Betrayed Kiefholzstraße Tunnel

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  The Wall at Köllnische Heide station in November 1986, where it cut the railway between Baumschulenweg and Neukölln, seen from the Neukölln side

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Standing 150 metres from his partner, a policeman crosses at the Köllnische Heide

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  Crowds of West Berliners at the Brandenburg Gate on 14 August 1961, the day after the border was sealed, as East German troops put up barriers and barbed wire at the Gate (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Wire cutters at the Ebertstraße fence on the first day

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  The Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in June 1965, seen from West Berlin

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Wire cutters at the Ebertstraße fence on the first day

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in 2022, a few doors from the site of the Kobold works near No. 19, where the two policemen were posted in 1961

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two policemen vanish from the Kobold works

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße near Strelitzer Straße in 2016; the border houses between Ackerstraße and Brunnenstraße, including No. 11, stood along this stretch

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The Mathern family leaves by the ground floor

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Ruppiner Straße in August 1963, two years after the truck broke through the new wall here

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Three young men crash a truck through the new barrier at Ruppiner Straße

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  The Bernauer Straße / Ruppiner Straße junction in 2007

  Photo: Andreas Thum. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Three young men crash a truck through the new barrier at Ruppiner Straße

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  The Bernauer Straße / Ruppiner Straße junction in 2007, where the truck smashed through the border strip's service gates in April 1989

  Photo: Andreas Thum. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Jan-Michael G.'s truck is caught in a cable barrier

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Ruppiner Straße in August 1963, with the bricked-up border houses later demolished for the border strip

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Jan-Michael G.'s truck is caught in a cable barrier

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  Köpenicker Straße looking towards the Schillingbrücke over the Spree in April 1990, with a Wall segment still standing

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Overboard from an excursion boat at the Schillingbrücke

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  The Spree near the Schillingbrücke seen from Kreuzberg in November 1987, with the Wall on the East Berlin bank

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Overboard from an excursion boat at the Schillingbrücke

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  The Spree seen from the Reichstag bank in August 1990, with the Wall still standing on the East Berlin bank and the Charité tower behind

  Photo: Robert Hösle. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Across the Spree behind the Charité

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  The Wall along Harzer Straße in November 1986, a short distance from Onckenstraße on the Treptow–Neukölln border

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two policemen leave their carbines in Onckenstraße, then wave from a VW

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  The Wall along Harzer Straße in November 1986, a short distance from Onckenstraße on the Treptow–Neukölln border

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A railway-works employee lowers himself on a rope in Onckenstraße

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  Harzer Straße on the Neukölln–Treptow border in November 1986, with the Wall on the left in front of the East Berlin houses

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Put back on the front line against advice, a policeman deserts at Harzer Straße

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  The Wall at the corner of Bouchéstraße and Harzer Straße on 18 November 1989

  Photo: Florian Schäffer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Put back on the front line against advice, a policeman deserts at Harzer Straße

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  Harzer Straße in November 1986: the pavement on the right was in Neukölln, the houses behind the Wall on the left in Treptow – the side from which the woman climbed out in 1961

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A 63-year-old climbs out of her window as Harzer Straße is cleared

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  The Wall at the corner of Bouchéstraße and Harzer Straße on 18 November 1989

  Photo: Florian Schäffer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A 63-year-old climbs out of her window as Harzer Straße is cleared

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  Harzer Straße in November 1986; the East Berlin houses stood behind the Wall on the left, and in 1961 residents escaped from them onto the western pavement

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A 56-year-old jumps from the third floor of Harzer Straße 113 into the fire brigade's sheet

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  The Wall at the corner of Bouchéstraße and Harzer Straße on 18 November 1989

  Photo: Florian Schäffer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A 56-year-old jumps from the third floor of Harzer Straße 113 into the fire brigade's sheet

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  The Wall along Harzer Straße on the Treptow–Neukölln border in November 1986, close to the spot given by grid reference in the US report of 1974

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Felled by a single aimed shot opposite Neukölln

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  The Wall along Zimmerstraße seen from the West Berlin viewing platform at the corner of Wilhelmstraße in 1988

  Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A militia man deserts from the wire detail at Zimmerstraße

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  The Wall along Zimmerstraße seen from the West Berlin viewing platform at the corner of Wilhelmstraße in 1988; control point 38 stood at this corner in 1961

  Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The lorry with an unloading permit that did not stop

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  The Wall along Zimmerstraße in 1988, seen from the corner of Wilhelmstraße; the East Berlin houses of Zimmerstraße stood behind it

  Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Over the wall from Zimmerstraße 85

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  East German police guarding the border at the corner of Zimmerstraße and Markgrafenstraße in October 1961, photographed through a hole in the Wall (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Out of the corner pub and over the wall at Markgrafenstraße

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  East German police guarding the border at the corner of Zimmerstraße and Markgrafenstraße in October 1961, a month after the escape here, photographed through a hole in the Wall (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Over the barbed wire and the stone wall at Markgrafenstraße

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, where the border houses stood; the gable mural shows a 1961 photo

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Out of the window at the Brunnenstraße corner

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  Cobblestones marking the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße at Bernauer Straße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Out of the window at the Brunnenstraße corner

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022; No. 24 was one of the border houses at this corner

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Max W.'s rope breaks at Bernauer Straße 24

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  Cobblestones marking the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße at Bernauer Straße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Max W.'s rope breaks at Bernauer Straße 24

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  Cobblestones marking the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße at Bernauer Straße (2018), close to No. 139

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A painter runs from the doorway and jumps the Wall

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in 2022

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A painter runs from the doorway and jumps the Wall

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  Cobblestones marking the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße at Bernauer Straße (2018), close to No. 139

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Bernd Sp. leaves only his briefcase behind

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in 2022

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Bernd Sp. leaves only his briefcase behind

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  Cobblestones marking the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018), near No. 141

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Gerd L. turns back under warning shots and hides at Brunnenstraße 141

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in 2022

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Gerd L. turns back under warning shots and hides at Brunnenstraße 141

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  Cobblestones marking the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018)

  Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Frank K. is caught at the signal fence

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in 2022, part of the Berlin Wall Memorial

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Frank K. is caught at the signal fence

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  Bernauer Straße at Brunnenstraße in 2022; the stretch of Nos. 17–22, where engineers built the second concrete wall in 1963, runs west from this corner

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Jürgen Cr. jumps from the new wall

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße near Strelitzer Straße in 2016

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Jürgen Cr. jumps from the new wall

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, with the East Berlin border houses' windows bricked up

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A married couple climbs out at the Wolliner Straße corner

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  The Wall across the end of Wolliner Straße at Bernauer Straße on 9 June 1965

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A married couple climbs out at the Wolliner Straße corner

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  A hall of the former Bergmann works (VEB Bergmann-Borsig) in Wilhelmsruh in 2022; in 1961 the works wall formed part of the border

  Photo: Ubahnverleih. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on A fitter climbs the Bergmann-Borsig factory wall with a ladder

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  A hall of the former Bergmann works (VEB Bergmann-Borsig) in Wilhelmsruh in 2022; the border ran along the works

  Photo: Ubahnverleih. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on Two young conscripts vanish in the fog at Bergmann-Borsig

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  The old Heidekrautbahn line at Wilhelmsruher Damm in Rosenthal in 2013; control point 4 lay by this railway in 1961

  Photo: Günter Haase. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on From a lorry's radiator over the wire near control point 4

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  Marker for the course of the Wall on the Wilhelmsruher Damm in Rosenthal (2013)

  Photo: Günter Haase. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on From a lorry's radiator over the wire near control point 4

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  The old Heidekrautbahn line (Wilhelmsruh–Schildow) at Wilhelmsruher Damm in Rosenthal in 2013, near the former control point 4 at the railway bridge

  Photo: Günter Haase. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A train on the bridge: a guard slips away at control point 4

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  Marker for the course of the Wall on the Wilhelmsruher Damm in Rosenthal (2013)

  Photo: Günter Haase. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A train on the bridge: a guard slips away at control point 4

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße in January 1978; No. 7 was one of the border houses a few doors from it

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on A pretend visitor jumps from Bernauer Straße 7

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing seen from Wedding in June 1972

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on A brewery tractor driver leaves the border works at Chausseestraße

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing in January 1990

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A brewery tractor driver leaves the border works at Chausseestraße

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing seen from Wedding in June 1972

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Allowed to chat at the border, two people cross

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing in January 1990

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Allowed to chat at the border, two people cross

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing seen from Wedding in June 1972

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on A Bewag worker who had spent ten days at the border crosses at Chausseestraße

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing in January 1990

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A Bewag worker who had spent ten days at the border crosses at Chausseestraße

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing seen from Wedding (West Berlin) in June 1972

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Guards shoot at a tipper truck approaching the Chausseestraße crossing

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing in January 1990, sixteen months after the tipper-truck attempt

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Guards shoot at a tipper truck approaching the Chausseestraße crossing

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing seen from Wedding in June 1972; in 1961 the three escapers climbed out of a manhole on the West Berlin part of Chausseestraße

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Through the sewer from the stadium yard to Chausseestraße

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  The south end of Wilhelmsruh S-Bahn station in October 1986

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Three surveyors near Wilhelmsruh station are collected by West Berlin customs

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  Wall segments at Michaelkirchplatz / Engeldamm (the former Fritz-Heckert-Straße) in August 1990, as the Wall was being dismantled

  Photo: Robert Hösle. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Posing as bricklayers at the Fritz-Heckert-Straße wall

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  The Leuschnerdamm in Kreuzberg in 2009; the patched cobbles mark where the Wall stood

  Photo: Uwca. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Posing as bricklayers at the Fritz-Heckert-Straße wall

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  Wall segments at Michaelkirchplatz / Engeldamm (the former Fritz-Heckert-Straße) in August 1990, near the Adalbertstraße checkpoint where the lorry broke through in 1961

  Photo: Robert Hösle. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A lorry feints a turn, then ploughs through the Wall at Adalbertstraße

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  A GDR watchtower still standing on the cleared border strip at the Engelbecken in August 1990, a short distance from the Adalbertstraße / Fritz-Heckert-Straße corner where Johannes Lange was killed

  Photo: Robert Hösle. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Johannes Lange shot at the last wall on Adalbertstraße

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  East German police checking people under the arcade of the Oberbaumbrücke on 13 August 1961, twelve days before the escape there (East German news agency photo)

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-85426-0002 / Rudolf Hesse. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A young man mingles with the builders at the Oberbaumbrücke

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  The Oberbaumbrücke crossing in October 1986, seen over the Wall from Kreuzberg

  Photo: Roehrensee Later version(s) were uploaded by Hic et nunc at German Wikipedia .. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A young man mingles with the builders at the Oberbaumbrücke

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  The Britzer Verbindungskanal (then Britzer Zweigkanal) at Baumschulenweg in 2008; the canal formed the sector border here, and the Britzer Allee crossed it at control point 67

  Photo: André Karwath aka Aka. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Used on A group leader sends his partner away at the Britzer Brücke

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  The Britzer Verbindungskanal (then Britzer Zweigkanal) at Baumschulenweg in 2008; the canal formed the sector border, with the Tanneberg allotments a little further along at Johannisthal

  Photo: André Karwath aka Aka. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Used on A pioneer crawler driver uses his job in the Tanneberg allotments

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  Bernauer Straße 1, next door to No. 2, in August 1963, its windows bricked up

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on A woman jumps from the first floor of Bernauer Straße 2

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985, beside the site of Nos. 1–2

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A woman jumps from the first floor of Bernauer Straße 2

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  Bernauer Straße 1, next door to No. 2, in August 1963, its windows bricked up

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Two escapes in one night from Bernauer Straße 2

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two escapes in one night from Bernauer Straße 2

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  Bernauer Straße 1, next door to No. 2, in August 1963, its windows bricked up like those of No. 2

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Through a hole in a bricked-up window at Bernauer Straße 2

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Through a hole in a bricked-up window at Bernauer Straße 2

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  Klemkestraße under the S-Bahn bridges in Reinickendorf in February 1986; the Wall ran along this street, separating it from Pankow

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A family of five leaves through an allotment at Klemkestraße

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  Klemkestraße under the S-Bahn bridges in Reinickendorf in February 1986; the Wall ran along this street, where control point 9 stood in 1961

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two air-defence men building the second line at Klemkestraße cross over

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  The old Späthstraßenbrücke of 1906 over the Teltow Canal, photographed in 2009; in 1961 the canal here was the sector border

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A man and a woman swim the Teltow Canal near the Späthbrücke

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  The Teltow Canal at the old Späthstraßenbrücke in summer 2007

  Photo: Jwnabd. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A man and a woman swim the Teltow Canal near the Späthbrücke

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  The old Späthstraßenbrücke over the Teltow Canal, photographed in 2009; in 1964 the border installations ran along the canal here

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A guard knocks his comrade off the watchtower and gets stuck between wall and fence

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  The Teltow Canal at the old Späthstraßenbrücke in summer 2007

  Photo: Jwnabd. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A guard knocks his comrade off the watchtower and gets stuck between wall and fence

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  The Teltow Canal at the old Späthstraßenbrücke in Baumschulenweg in 2009, a few hundred metres from the water-authority site on the canal

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A gardener breaks through from the unguarded water-authority site on the Teltow Canal

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  The Wall and border strip along Heidelberger Straße between Neukölln and Treptow, November 1986

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Round the guards at Heidelberger Straße

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  The Wall and border strip along Heidelberger Straße between Neukölln and Treptow, November 1986

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A policeman sends his partner to watch the West Berlin police car, then climbs the fence

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, a few doors from the Swinemünder Straße corner, with the border houses' windows bricked up

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on An unknown man over the wall at Swinemünder Straße

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978, near the Swinemünder Straße corner

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on An unknown man over the wall at Swinemünder Straße

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, a few doors from the Swinemünder Straße corner

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A young man dashes from a bakery while a photographer distracts the guards

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on A young man dashes from a bakery while a photographer distracts the guards

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978, near Swinemünder Straße

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Anita L. and Erna M. are caught in the attic with a washing line

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Anita L. and Erna M. are caught in the attic with a washing line

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, two months before the escape from nearby Swinemünder Straße

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Conscript Jörg S. stages a check and escapes with two friends

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Conscript Jörg S. stages a check and escapes with two friends

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, a few doors from the Swinemünder Straße corner house, with the border houses' windows bricked up

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Peter Hertel's forged BEWAG order and a gas worker's ladder

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Peter Hertel's forged BEWAG order and a gas worker's ladder

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962; No. 42 was two doors along this row of bricked-up border houses

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Erich B.'s family jumps from Bernauer Straße 42

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Erich B.'s family jumps from Bernauer Straße 42

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, three months before the cellar escape from No. 42 in this row of bricked-up border houses

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on West Berlin police open a cellar window for three young men

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on West Berlin police open a cellar window for three young men

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, with the row of border houses that included No. 43

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Five escapees rope down from the roof of Bernauer Straße 43

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978, next door to No. 43

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Five escapees rope down from the roof of Bernauer Straße 43

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on The pair who came to rent a cellar

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, with No. 44's windows bricked up

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The pair who came to rent a cellar

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, a few doors from No. 47b

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Dieter R. jumps from Bruno P.'s flat

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Dieter R. jumps from Bruno P.'s flat

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, a few doors from No. 47

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Down a telephone cable from Bernauer Straße 47

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Down a telephone cable from Bernauer Straße 47

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  Bernauer Straße at Wolliner Straße on 8 June 1962, four months after the escape from No. 46, two doors from this corner

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Scraping out the joints by candlelight at Bernauer Straße 46

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Scraping out the joints by candlelight at Bernauer Straße 46

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  East German railway police guard workmen tearing up tracks into West Berlin at Bornholmer Straße on 28 September 1961 (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on A railway policeman at Bornholmer Straße asks to relieve himself and is gone

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  Border troops at the Bornholmer Straße crossing and S-Bahn station in 1982

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, gerddanigel.de.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A railway policeman at Bornholmer Straße asks to relieve himself and is gone

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  Wollankstraße in East Berlin seen from the railway bridge over the Wall in December 1986; the railway embankment behind the houses was the way out in 1961

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Two men from Wollankstraße 14 escape over the railway embankment

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  Wollankstraße S-Bahn station in October 1986, near Schulzestraße, where Michael Schmidt was shot in 1984

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Michael Schmidt shot at Schulzestraße

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  The Wall along Lohmühlenstraße in Treptow in March 1987, seen from West Berlin

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A mother climbs the wall at Lohmühlenstraße with her child, helped from the West

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  The Wall along Sebastianstraße in 1961: the street's northern side belonged to East Berlin, the southern side to West Berlin

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Called over from the West, a guard at Sebastianstraße goes

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  The Wall along Sebastianstraße in 1961, the stretch where control point 47 probably stood

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on A lorry driver delivering building material jumps the barrier wall

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  The Wall at Bethaniendamm, where Köpenicker Straße ended, in October 1986 – the stretch where control point 51 probably stood

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A bricklayer painting the wall's coping stones jumps down on the other side

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  The Wall at Bethaniendamm, where Köpenicker Straße ended, in October 1986, two years before the escape

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two get over the Wall at Bethaniendamm under fire; their companion is caught

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  The Wall at Bethaniendamm, where Köpenicker Straße ended, in October 1986; Paul Schultz was shot on the Wall on this stretch, near Melchiorstraße, in 1963

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Paul Schultz – shot on the Wall on Christmas Day

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  Aerial view of the border strip between Schönholz (top) and Reinickendorf (bottom), March 1980; the Provinzstraße, cut by the strip, passes under the railway at bottom right

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Alone on his post at Schönholz, an unsworn recruit leaves his weapon and helmet

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  The border installations at Heiligensee, the West Berlin side of the Hennigsdorf border section, in March 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Three teenagers from Legebruch run for the border – one gets through

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  The border installations between Stolpe-Süd and Heiligensee in March 1987, seen from West Berlin

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Four riot-police pioneers walk off during the breakfast break at Stolpe-Süd

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  The border installations between Stolpe-Süd and Heiligensee in March 1987, seen from West Berlin

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on After a night of drinking, a deputy company commander climbs out with a painter's ladder

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  The border installations between Stolpe-Süd and Heiligensee in March 1987, seen from West Berlin

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on An off-duty lieutenant climbs out at Stolpe-Süd

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  The border installations between Stolpe-Süd and Heiligensee in March 1987, seen from West Berlin

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A walkie-talkie from West Berlin: the planned break-out at Stolpe-Süd

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 37 / Ruppiner Straße and Nos. 36–33 in August 1963, windows bricked up

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Ulla D. and Hans K. break into an empty flat and jump

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  Bernauer Straße 37–33 at the Ruppiner Straße corner in August 1963; No. 35 is in this row, its windows bricked up

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Selma P. and her son Peter W. jump from the third floor

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  Bernauer Straße 37–33 at the Ruppiner Straße corner in August 1963, a few doors from No. 29

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Frieda Schulze's tug-of-war at the window

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  Bernauer Straße 37–33 at the Ruppiner Straße corner in August 1963, a few doors from No. 30

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Gerhard D.'s family escapes through a bricked-up cellar window

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  The Wall between Neukölln and Treptow near Treptower Straße on 15 March 1990

  Photo: Gerd Danigel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A policeman crawls through the fence at Treptower Straße

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985, where the corner house Ackerstraße 43 had stood

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Karl-Heinz S. climbs down a fire brigade ladder while police hold the guards at bay

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in 2015; the gable mural shows a 1961 scene at this street

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Karl-Heinz S. climbs down a fire brigade ladder while police hold the guards at bay

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985, where the corner house Ackerstraße 43 had stood

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Irma B. barricades her door and climbs down a fire brigade ladder

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in 2015

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Irma B. barricades her door and climbs down a fire brigade ladder

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985, where the corner house Ackerstraße 43 had stood

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The rope snaps at Ackerstraße 43

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in 2015

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The rope snaps at Ackerstraße 43

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985, where the corner house Ackerstraße 43 had stood

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Over the roofs from Ackerstraße 41 with a washing line

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in 2015

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Over the roofs from Ackerstraße 41 with a washing line

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  The Wall at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Ackerstraße in 1985, by the site of Ackerstraße 42–43

  Photo: Werner Kremer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A young man misses the window frame and falls three storeys

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in 2015

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A young man misses the window frame and falls three storeys

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  The border strip at Bernauer Straße / Ackerstraße, photographed from the East in 1989

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, ddr-fotograf.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Three men try to escape through the sewer under Ackerstraße

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  Ackerstraße seen from Bernauer Straße in 2015

  Photo: Orderinchaos. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Three men try to escape through the sewer under Ackerstraße

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  The filled-in Luisenstädtischer Kanal and the Waldemarstraße bridge in May 1987, with the Wall running just beyond the bridge

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Two women and a child jump from a first-floor flat in Waldemarstraße

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße near Strelitzer Straße in 2016; the Wall between Nos. 11 and 13 stood on this stretch

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Günter Tr. climbs the Wall with a company ladder

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße near Strelitzer Straße in 2016; the Wall between Nos. 11 and 13 stood on this stretch

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Truck driver Heinz K. over the glass-topped wall

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße near Strelitzer Straße in 2016; No. 13 was one of the border houses on this stretch

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Fake chimney sweep abseils from Bernauer Straße 13

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße near Strelitzer Straße in 2016; No. 13a was one of the border houses on this stretch

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Horst K. jumps, and a week later his wife follows with their baby

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße near Strelitzer Straße in 2016; No. 16 was one of the border houses on this stretch

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two jumps from the second floor of Bernauer Straße 16

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Two jumps from the second floor of Bernauer Straße 16

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße in 2016; No. 10 stood on this stretch between Ackerstraße and Brunnenstraße

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Parents and 14-year-old daughter rope down from Bernauer Straße 10

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße in 2016; No. 10 stood on this stretch between Ackerstraße and Brunnenstraße

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Three generations jump into the net at Bernauer Straße 10

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Three generations jump into the net at Bernauer Straße 10

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße in 2016; No. 10 stood on this stretch between Ackerstraße and Brunnenstraße

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Five fire engines for two jumpers at Bernauer Straße 10

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Five fire engines for two jumpers at Bernauer Straße 10

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  The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße in 2016; No. 10 stood on this stretch between Ackerstraße and Brunnenstraße

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus Sch. comes through the cemetery and is caught in Bernauer Straße 10

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße in January 1978; No. 7 was one of the border houses a few doors along

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Family F. jumps under fire from the third floor

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Family F. jumps under fire from the third floor

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße in January 1978; No. 8 was one of the border houses a few doors along

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Heavily pregnant Helga Knittel jumps first

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Heavily pregnant Helga Knittel jumps first

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses, weeks before the forced evictions began (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Marianne S. flees as the eviction squads arrive

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße in January 1978, a few doors from No. 8

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Marianne S. flees as the eviction squads arrive

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Removal worker jumps onto a waiting truck

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße in January 1978, a few doors from No. 8

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Removal worker jumps onto a waiting truck

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Anni M.'s rope tied round the sofa

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße in January 1978

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Anni M.'s rope tied round the sofa

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Evacuation-squad member jumps from Bernauer Straße 6

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße in January 1978, a few doors from No. 6

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Evacuation-squad member jumps from Bernauer Straße 6

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  The Reconciliation Church behind the Wall on Bernauer Straße in January 1978, a few doors from No. 5

  Photo: Olga Bandelowa. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Used on Rudolf B., his wife and son rope down from Bernauer Straße 5

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Rudolf B., his wife and son rope down from Bernauer Straße 5

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  Bernauer Straße near Brunnenstraße in 2022; No. 23 stood on this stretch

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on 69-year-old Ella K. escapes with the fire brigade's help

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  Lorries lined up in a side street off Bernauer Straße in early September 1961 to clear furniture from the border houses (CIA booklet photo)

  Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on 69-year-old Ella K. escapes with the fire brigade's help

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  Bernauer Straße near Brunnenstraße in 2022; No. 23 stood on this stretch

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Family D. jumps onto a truck's tarpaulin

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  Bernauer Straße near Brunnenstraße in 2022, by the site of No. 23 and the Kobold works

  Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Truck driver Günter P. climbs the Wall on his first day at the site

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  The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park in August 1963, where the young East Berliners boarded the American buses in 1961

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Out in American uniform jackets on a US sightseeing bus

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  The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park in August 1963, where the brothers climbed into the French tour bus in 1977

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Two brothers in the luggage hold of a French army tour bus

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  The street Wolfswerder in Kleinmachnow in 2002, ending at the former border area

  Photo: Andreas Lippold. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Eleven try the sewer pipe at Wolfswerder 3 – three get through

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  The disused autobahn bridge over the Teltow Canal at Dreilinden in 2009; until 1969 the transit route and its control points ran across here

  Photo: Biberbaer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two adults and three children cut the wire near Dreilinden

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  The abandoned stretch of the old transit autobahn at Albrechts Teerofen in March 1988, cut off by the Wall

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two adults and three children cut the wire near Dreilinden

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  Looking south from the Königswegbrücke towards the Drewitz checkpoint in 1987

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Three men break through the first control point at Drewitz

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  GDR officers checking cars at the Drewitz crossing, 31 March 1972

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0331-0005 / Hartmut Reiche. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Three men break through the first control point at Drewitz

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  Bernauer Straße at Gartenstraße on 8 June 1962, four months after the escape near here: the Wall, and the sealed entrance to Nordbahnhof S-Bahn station

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on NCO Egon Z. knocks down his squad leader and flees with two women

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  Bernauer Straße at Gartenstraße on 8 June 1962: the Wall at the western end of the Bernauer Straße border strip

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on An unknown escapee slips past the guards at Gartenstraße

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  Memorial panel for Heinz Cyrus at Gartenstraße 85, Berlin-Mitte (2024)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Heinz Cyrus – hunted into Gartenstraße 85

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  Bernauer Straße at Gartenstraße on 8 June 1962, close to where Heinz Cyrus tried to cross in 1965

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Heinz Cyrus – hunted into Gartenstraße 85

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  The border strip at the corner of Liesenstraße and Gartenstraße by the Nordbahnhof in January 1987, seen over the Wall from Wedding

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Leo Lis shot near the Nordbahnhof

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  Bernauer Straße at Gartenstraße on 8 June 1962, with the sealed Nordbahnhof entrance

  Photo: Sigurd Hilkenbach. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Leo Lis shot near the Nordbahnhof

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  The border strip at Liesenstraße / Gartenstraße in January 1987, with an S-Bahn train on the North-South line's bridge – the line the escaper walked along in 1982

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A bucket, the S-Bahn tracks and the bridge over the Gartenstraße

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  The Wall around Klein Glienicke at the Böttcherberg in April 1988, seen from West Berlin, with houses of the enclave just beyond the border fence

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A mother and her five-year-old jump from a balcony at Klein Glienicke

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  Oderberger Straße in 1962, seen from the West Berlin viewing platform at Bernauer Straße: a wooden screen and anti-tank obstacles block the street (LOOK magazine photo, Library of Congress)

  Photo: Jim Hansen (1921–1999). Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Betrayed a few metres short: the tunnel to Eberswalder / Oderberger Straße

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  Looking over the Wall from the end of Bernauer Straße into Eberswalder Straße, 1982

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Betrayed a few metres short: the tunnel to Eberswalder / Oderberger Straße

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen from the American side on 19 August 1963

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Two Swiss typesetters and the hidden railwayman from Dresden

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  Checkpoint Charlie on 19 August 1963, the crossing the taxi owner's cars with 'CD' plates used

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Fake UN diplomats: the taxi driver's 'CD' car caught on Karl-Marx-Allee

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen from the American side on 19 August 1963

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on The Lloyd 600 with a secretary hidden in the back

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen through a bus windscreen in November 1965

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on The Lloyd 600 with a secretary hidden in the back

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen from the American side on 19 August 1963

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on A sleeping pill for the four-year-old: the American's Ford at Checkpoint Charlie

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen through a bus windscreen in November 1965

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A sleeping pill for the four-year-old: the American's Ford at Checkpoint Charlie

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen through a bus windscreen on the Friedrichstraße in November 1965

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Kuo Ying-Hu's Mercedes: three people in the boot

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen from the American side in August 1963

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Kuo Ying-Hu's Mercedes: three people in the boot

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen through a bus windscreen on the Friedrichstraße in November 1965, two months after the Peugeot was stopped

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A Teltow schoolgirl behind the dashboard of a Peugeot

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen from the American side in August 1963

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on A Teltow schoolgirl behind the dashboard of a Peugeot

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  Friedrichstraße looking north from Kochstraße towards Checkpoint Charlie, 23 February 1973

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Juergen Vicari tries to walk through Checkpoint Charlie in a US Army uniform

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  The Allied checkpoint hut at Checkpoint Charlie in March 1970

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Juergen Vicari tries to walk through Checkpoint Charlie in a US Army uniform

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  Friedrichstraße looking north from Kochstraße towards Checkpoint Charlie, 23 February 1973

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Four East Berliners in the cabinets of a US soldiers' VW bus

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  The Allied checkpoint hut at Checkpoint Charlie in March 1970

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Four East Berliners in the cabinets of a US soldiers' VW bus

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  Friedrichstraße looking north from Kochstraße towards Checkpoint Charlie, 23 February 1973

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A stranger in US uniform is held back at Checkpoint Charlie

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  The Allied checkpoint hut at Checkpoint Charlie in March 1970, with the East German control area beyond

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on A stranger in US uniform is held back at Checkpoint Charlie

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  The Allied checkpoint at Checkpoint Charlie in May 1977 (US Department of Defense photo)

  Photo: HELGA T.H. MELLMANN. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on A doctor's family in the boot of a US sergeant's Cadillac

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  Friedrichstraße looking north from Kochstraße towards Checkpoint Charlie, February 1973

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A doctor's family in the boot of a US sergeant's Cadillac

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  The Allied checkpoint at Checkpoint Charlie in May 1977 (US Department of Defense photo)

  Photo: HELGA T.H. MELLMANN. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on A pregnant woman and her husband behind the back seat of a US sergeant's Chevrolet

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  Friedrichstraße looking north from Kochstraße towards Checkpoint Charlie, February 1973

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on A pregnant woman and her husband behind the back seat of a US sergeant's Chevrolet

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  The Knesebeckbrücke over the Teltow Canal between Teltow and Zehlendorf in 2009; the canal formed the border here, and the two drivers swam it near this bridge in 1964

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Concrete lorry to the canal bank, then a swim

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  The Knesebeckbrücke over the Teltow Canal between Teltow and Zehlendorf in 2009; the three young men swam the canal near here in 1986

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Three young people swim the Teltow Canal

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  Memorial stele for Joachim Mehr on the Berlin Wall Trail near Frohnau (2014)

  Photo: Josef Papi. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Joachim Mehr shot in the wire near Bergfelde

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  Memorial stele for Willi Born on the Berlin Wall Trail near Frohnau (2014)

  Photo: Josef Papi. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Willi Born – a young soldier's flight ends in the Bergfelde woods

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  The Wall dividing the railway lines just north of the Bösebrücke at Bornholmer Straße, August 1984

  Photo: Hagen Pelka, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus Kratzel killed in the S-Bahn tunnel at Bornholmer Straße

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  The railway corridor at the Bösebrücke and Bornholmer Straße station in June 1988

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus Kratzel killed in the S-Bahn tunnel at Bornholmer Straße

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  The railway corridor at the Bösebrücke in June 1988, with the Wall alongside the tracks south of the Bornholmer Straße crossing

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus-Jürgen Kluge shot on the crest of the Wall

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  Border troops at the Bornholmer Straße crossing in 1982

  Photo: Gerd Danigel, gerddanigel.de.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus-Jürgen Kluge shot on the crest of the Wall

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  The surviving section of the Wall at Bernauer Straße seen from the Sophien cemetery (2008); the cemetery's wall on Bergstraße lay in the border area

  Photo: Jörg Zägel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Siegfried J. sets off an alarm and gives up at Bergstraße

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  The U8 platform at Alexanderplatz in 2012; while the Wall stood, West Berlin trains ran through this station without stopping

  Photo: IngolfBLN. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Two transport workers plan to stop a West Berlin U-Bahn train under Alexanderplatz

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  The Havel at Sacrow seen from West Berlin on 1 May 1989: the border ran down the middle of the river

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The boat commander who went ashore at the fairy-tale garden

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  Visitors leaving the border crossing at Friedrichstraße station on 18 May 1972

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0518-0036 / Horst Sturm. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A kick through the glass wall at Friedrichstraße

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  The Spree between Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in November 1987, seen from Kreuzberg, with a pier of the destroyed Brommy Bridge and the Wall on the East Berlin bank, near the Heizkraftwerk Mitte

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Hans-Joachim Zock – a planned swim across the Spree

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  The Heidekampgraben near the Heidekampweg in 2011; this ditch formed the sector border south-east of the Sonnenallee crossing

  Photo: Lienhard Schulz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A circus hand runs for the Wall near the Sonnenallee crossing

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  The Sonnenallee crossing point on 5 January 1964

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C0105-0003-001 / Stöhr. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on A circus hand runs for the Wall near the Sonnenallee crossing

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  West Berlin visitors queuing at the Sonnenallee crossing point on 5 January 1964

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C0105-0003-001 / Stöhr. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Dogs, three shots and an arrest at the Sonnenallee crossing

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  The Invalidenstraße border crossing at the Sandkrugbrücke in 1987, seen from West Berlin

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two East Germans escape in a Belgian diplomat's car

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  The Invalidenstraße border crossing at the Sandkrugbrücke in October 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Two East Germans escape in a Belgian diplomat's car

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  The Reichstag in January 1985, with the Wall's barriers along the far bank of the Spree

  Photo: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A tower guard climbs the fence at the Spree behind the Reichstag

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  The Spree seen from the Reichstag bank in August 1990, with the Wall still standing on the East Berlin bank

  Photo: Robert Hösle. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A tower guard climbs the fence at the Spree behind the Reichstag

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  The Spree seen from the Reichstag bank in August 1990, with the Wall still standing on the East Berlin bank

  Photo: Robert Hösle. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Martin Notev is dragged back out of the Spree at the West Berlin bank

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  The Reichstag in January 1985, with the Wall's barriers along the far bank of the Spree

  Photo: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Martin Notev is dragged back out of the Spree at the West Berlin bank

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  The Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate seen from the Straße des 17. Juni in December 1988, three months after the attempt

  Photo: Roland Arhelger. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two young men run through the Brandenburg Gate and stop at a warning shot

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  The Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in June 1965

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Two young men run through the Brandenburg Gate and stop at a warning shot

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  The former GDR border watchtower on the Havel shore at Nieder Neuendorf, opposite Heiligensee (2018)

  Photo: Leonhard Lenz. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A man and a woman swim the Havel to Heiligensee in the dark

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  The border installations at Heiligensee in March 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A man and a woman swim the Havel to Heiligensee in the dark

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  Looking down into the discovered escape tunnel at Wollankstraße S-Bahn station, photographed by the East German news agency for a press conference on 1 February 1962 (the archive's original caption is GDR propaganda)

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-90187-0012 / Peter Heinz Junge. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on The Collapsed Tunnel under Wollankstraße Station

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  East German diagram of the Wollankstraße tunnel, shown at the GDR press conference on 1 February 1962, which presented the escape tunnel as an 'agent sluice' dug from West Berlin

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-90175-0007 / Unknown photographer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on The Collapsed Tunnel under Wollankstraße Station

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  Memorial plaque for Heinz Jercha at Heidelberger Straße 35 in Neukölln, the house the tunnel was dug from (unveiled 27 March 2012; photographed April 2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Heidelberger Straße Tunnel and the Death of Heinz Jercha

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  Memorial plaque at Kiefholzstraße 79 in Plänterwald naming Heinz Jercha among six people killed at the Wall in Treptow (photographed 2011)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Heidelberger Straße Tunnel and the Death of Heinz Jercha

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  Ground plaque in the pavement in Alt-Treptow, near Elsenstraße, marking the escape tunnel through which, as the plaque says, 55 East Berliners escaped on 11 June 1962 (photographed 2013)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Whitsun Tunnel (Pfingsttunnel)

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  Plaque at Zimmerstraße 54 in Mitte: an East Berlin family escaped through a tunnel under this street on 18 June 1962, and border soldier Reinhold Huhn was shot dead by an escape helper (photographed 2018)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Rudolf Müller's Tunnel and the Death of Reinhold Huhn

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  Information board 'Der verratene Fluchttunnel in der Sebastianstraße – 28. Juni 1962' at Sebastianstraße 82 in Kreuzberg, where the tunnel began (photographed 2022)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Betrayed Sebastianstraße Tunnel

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  The Wall along Sebastianstraße in 1961: the street's northern side belonged to East Berlin, the southern side to West Berlin

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on The Betrayed Sebastianstraße Tunnel

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  Memorial plaque for 'Tunnel 29' at Schönholzer Straße 7 in Mitte, where the 135-metre tunnel ended and 29 people escaped on 14–15 September 1962 (plaque from 2009, photographed 2010)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Tunnel 29

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  The border strip at the corner of Heidelberger Straße and Elsenstraße, seen from a former watchtower on 29 June 1990 – the junction where both Heidelberger Krug tunnels began

  Photo: Volkmar Bencker. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on The Second Heidelberger Krug Tunnel to Elsenstraße

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  Harry Seidel on trial before the GDR Supreme Court on 27 December 1962, after his arrest at the Kleinmachnow tunnel; court president Heinrich Toeplitz presides (GDR press photo; the archive's original caption is propaganda)

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-A1227-0007-001 / Rudolf Hesse. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on The Kleinmachnow Tunnel and the Arrest of Harry Seidel

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  The street Wolfswerder in Kleinmachnow in 2002, ending at the former border area where the tunnel from West Berlin was meant to surface

  Photo: Andreas Lippold. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The Kleinmachnow Tunnel and the Arrest of Harry Seidel

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  Steel plates in the grass at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße tracing the route of 'Tunnel 57' (1964) (photographed 2011)

  Photo: N-Lange.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Tunnel 57

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  Plaque at Strelitzer Straße 55, where Tunnel 57 ended: it records the escape of 57 people on 3–4 October 1964 and the death of border guard Egon Schultz, killed by a comrade's bullet (photographed 2010)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Tunnel 57

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  Steel plates at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße marking the line of an escape tunnel dug in 1971 (photographed 2012)

  Photo: Karen Mardahl. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Tunnel 71 – The Last Tunnel under Bernauer Straße

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  Information stele at Waldmüllerstraße 6 in Klein Glienicke (photographed 2020) showing a Stasi photograph of the 1973 escape tunnel and the Wall at Wannseestraße in 1962

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Klein Glienicke Family Tunnel

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing seen from Wedding (West Berlin) in June 1972

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Armoured pre-war Opel at Chausseestraße

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  Remains of the Wall at the former Chausseestraße crossing in November 2011 (since demolished)

  Photo: Christian Mentel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Armoured pre-war Opel at Chausseestraße

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  The Chausseestraße border crossing seen from Wedding (West Berlin) in June 1972

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Lada crash at Chausseestraße

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  Remains of the Wall at the former Chausseestraße crossing in November 2011 (since demolished)

  Photo: Christian Mentel. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Lada crash at Chausseestraße

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  Information panel on German division in the Bürgermeistergarten, Falkensee, telling how train driver Harry Deterling drove through Albrechtshof station on 5 December 1961, with a photo of Deterling and his family at Marienfelde refugee camp (photographed 2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The last train to freedom

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  Albrechtshof station in 2007 – the last GDR station, which Deterling's train passed at full speed in 1961

  Photo: A.Savin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The last train to freedom

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  The Heinrich-Heine-Straße border crossing in August 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Fatal truck breakthrough at Heinrich-Heine-Straße

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  The Elsenstraße crossing between Treptow and Neukölln in 1990, looking towards Heidelberger Straße

  Photo: Klimper. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Wolfgang Engels' armoured personnel carrier

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  Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstraße in August 1963, three months after Heinz Meixner drove under the barrier here

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Under the barrier in an Austin-Healey Sprite

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  Checkpoint Charlie in January 1962: US Navy reservists at the 'You are leaving the American sector' sign

  Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on Under the barrier in an Austin-Healey Sprite

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  The Invalidenstraße border crossing at the Sandkrugbrücke in October 1987

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Failed bus escape at Invalidenstraße

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  Border guards and civilians push a car that would not start through the Invalidenstraße crossing on 31 October 1964, a year after the bus escape attempt (GDR press photo)

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1031-0044-008 / Rudolf Hesse. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Failed bus escape at Invalidenstraße

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  Cars at the control lanes of the Drewitz crossing on 31 March 1972 (GDR press photo)

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0331-0005 / Hartmut Reiche. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on The 'Trojan cow' at Drewitz

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  Cars at the control lanes of the Drewitz crossing on 31 March 1972 (GDR press photo)

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0331-0005 / Hartmut Reiche. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Trabant caught by a steel cable at Drewitz

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  Information stele at the site of the former Staaken (Heerstraße) border crossing (photographed 2013)

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Trabant against the Staaken barrier

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  Checkpoint Charlie seen from the western side on 9 November 1986, ten weeks after the gravel-truck breakthrough

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Gravel truck through Checkpoint Charlie

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  The 'You are leaving the American sector' sign at Checkpoint Charlie in 1986, with the East German control area behind

  Photo: Nancy Wong. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Gravel truck through Checkpoint Charlie

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  The East German barriers at the Potsdam end of the Glienicke Bridge in 1987

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Wolga car on the Glienicke Bridge

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  The marker in the middle of the Glienicke Bridge showing where the border ran (photographed 2014)

  Photo: Roland.h.bueb. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Wolga car on the Glienicke Bridge

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  The Glienicke Bridge border crossing in 1987, looking across the bridge towards Potsdam

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Truck full of gas cylinders over the Glienicke Bridge

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  The East German barriers at the Potsdam end of the Glienicke Bridge in 1987

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Truck full of gas cylinders over the Glienicke Bridge

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  Information steles at the site of the former Stolpe crossing, in the Tegel forest at Heiligensee (photographed 2020)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Citroën at the Stolpe crossing

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  Information steles at the site of the former Stolpe crossing, in the Tegel forest at Heiligensee (photographed 2020)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on ZIL truck overturned at Stolpe

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  The Günter Litfin memorial in the former border command tower at Kieler Straße 2, Berlin-Mitte (2024)

  Photo: Neuköllner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Günter Litfin – shot swimming the Humboldthafen

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  Memorial stone for Günter Litfin on the Alexanderufer beside the Humboldthafen, where he was shot (2020)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Günter Litfin – shot swimming the Humboldthafen

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  Memorial plaque for Roland Hoff on Lichterfelder Allee in Teltow (2017)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Roland Hoff – shot in the Teltow Canal

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  Memorial plaque at the Knesebeckbrücke over the Teltowkanal in Berlin-Zehlendorf, commemorating Roland Hoff among the victims of the Wall (photographed c. 2009)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Roland Hoff – shot in the Teltow Canal

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  Memorial plaque for Udo Düllick on the May-Ayim-Ufer in Kreuzberg, on the Spree near the Oberbaumbrücke (2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Udo Düllick – drowned under fire in the Spree

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  The Oberbaumbrücke border crossing over the Spree in 1987, with East German border-troop boats on the river

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Udo Düllick – drowned under fire in the Spree

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  Memorial plaque on the May-Ayim-Ufer in Kreuzberg, on the Spree near the Oberbaumbrücke, listing people killed at the Wall's water border, including Werner Probst (photographed 2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Werner Probst – shot at the West Berlin ladder

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  Köpenicker Straße looking towards the Schillingbrücke on 11 April 1990, when the crossing was still a checkpoint in the months after the Wall opened

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Werner Probst – shot at the West Berlin ladder

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  The former border-troop command tower at Schlesischer Busch, Alt-Treptow, near the mouth of the Landwehrkanal, photographed in 2011 (the tower was built after the 1962 escape)

  Photo: Chris. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on The excursion ship "Friedrich Wolf"

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  Memorial plaque on the May-Ayim-Ufer in Kreuzberg, on the Spree near the Oberbaumbrücke, listing people killed at the Wall's water border, including Anton Walzer (photographed 2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Anton Walzer – shot swimming from a barge

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  The Oberbaumbrücke border crossing in 1987

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Anton Walzer – shot swimming from a barge

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  The Oberbaumbrücke border crossing over the Spree in 1987, with East German border-troop boats on the river

  Photo: Jochims. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Hans Räwel – New Year's morning in the icy Spree

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  Memorial plaque on the May-Ayim-Ufer in Kreuzberg, on the Spree near the Oberbaumbrücke, listing people killed at the Wall's water border, including Hans Räwel (photographed 2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Hans Räwel – New Year's morning in the icy Spree

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  The Reichstag building photographed from the west in January 1985, with the Wall's barriers along the far bank of the Spree

  Photo: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus Schröter – homemade diving suit at the Reichstag

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  The White Crosses memorial on the Spree bank at the Reichstagufer, which includes a cross for Klaus Schröter (2016)

  Photo: Dietmar Rabich. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Klaus Schröter – homemade diving suit at the Reichstag

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  East German border buoy No. 13 on the Jungfernsee, one of the buoys marking the water border between the GDR and West Berlin, 1 May 1989

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Hubert Hohlbein – through the Jungfernsee in a diving suit

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  The Havel at the Glienicker Brücke on 1 May 1989, seen from West Berlin; the border ran across the middle of the bridge, with the Wall and a watchtower on the Potsdam side

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Hubert Hohlbein – through the Jungfernsee in a diving suit

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  The brightly lit Wall along the Spree bank at Mühlenstraße, Friedrichshain, seen from the Gröbenufer in West Berlin in 1985 – the stretch now known as the East Side Gallery

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A miner escapes through the Spree at Mühlenstraße

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  The Teltowkanal at Albrechts Teerofen in March 1988, with the former Dreilinden autobahn bridge blocked by a section of wall

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Hartmut Richter swims the Teltow Canal

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  The Teltowkanal at Albrechts Teerofen in March 1988, seen from the West Berlin bank towards the former Dreilinden autobahn bridge

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Hartmut Richter swims the Teltow Canal

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  Memorial plaque on the May-Ayim-Ufer in Kreuzberg, on the Spree near the Oberbaumbrücke, listing people killed at the Wall's water border, including Bernd Lehmann (photographed 2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Bernd Lehmann – caught in underwater barbed wire

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  The former border watchtower at Am Flutgraben 3 (Schlesischer Busch), beside the Flutgraben in Alt-Treptow (2011)

  Photo: Tx0h. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Bernd Lehmann – caught in underwater barbed wire

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  The brightly lit Wall along the Spree bank at Mühlenstraße, Friedrichshain, seen from the Gröbenufer in West Berlin in 1985 – the stretch now known as the East Side Gallery

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Two border guards take a patrol boat across the Spree

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  Memorial plaque on the May-Ayim-Ufer in Kreuzberg, on the Spree near the Oberbaumbrücke, listing people killed at the Wall's water border, including Manfred Weylandt (photographed 2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Manfred Weylandt – shot in the Spree

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  Köpenicker Straße looking towards the Schillingbrücke on 11 April 1990, when the crossing was still a checkpoint in the months after the Wall opened

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Manfred Weylandt – shot in the Spree

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  Villa Starck on Bertinistraße in Potsdam (2012), where the East German border boat company on the Jungfernsee was based

  Photo: Writtenby. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A water police officer sails his patrol boat to the West

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  Former East German border watchtower for shipping on the Jungfernsee, Bertinistraße, Potsdam (2007)

  Photo: Writtenby. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A water police officer sails his patrol boat to the West

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  Memorial plaque for Rainer Liebeke on Kladower Straße, Sacrow, Potsdam (2020)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Sacrower See – one friend makes it, Rainer Liebeke drowns

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  The Sacrower See near Potsdam in 2024; while the Wall stood, the lake lay on the border between the GDR and West Berlin

  Photo: Neuköllner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Sacrower See – one friend makes it, Rainer Liebeke drowns

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  Former East German border watchtower at the Nedlitz water crossing on the Jungfernsee, Bertinistraße, Potsdam (2007)

  Photo: Writtenby. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on A landscape architect dives through the Jungfernsee barrier

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  East German border buoy No. 13 on the Jungfernsee, one of the buoys marking the water border between the GDR and West Berlin, 1 May 1989

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on A landscape architect dives through the Jungfernsee barrier

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  The surviving section of the Wall on Niederkirchnerstraße with the former Haus der Ministerien (today Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus) behind it (2019)

  Photo: Pymouss. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The Holzapfel family's cable slide from the Haus der Ministerien

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  View from the Martin-Gropius-Bau in West Berlin over the Wall to the Haus der Ministerien, 2 October 1987

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on The Holzapfel family's cable slide from the Haus der Ministerien

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  Schmollerstraße at Schmollerplatz in Alt-Treptow (2011); in 1983 Holger Bethke and Michael Becker escaped from the attic of a house on this street

  Photo: Lotse. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Holger Bethke and Michael Becker slide over the Wall on a steel cable

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  The Reichstag building photographed from the west in January 1985; in May 1989 the Bethke brothers landed their microlights in front of it

  Photo: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Ultralight flight from Treptower Park to the Reichstag

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  Memorial stele for Winfried Freudenberg on Erdmann-Graeser-Weg in Berlin-Zehlendorf, where he died (2012)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Winfried Freudenberg's fatal gas balloon flight

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  Winfried Freudenberg's portrait in the Window of Remembrance at the Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Straße (2015)

  Photo: Brewer Bob. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Winfried Freudenberg's fatal gas balloon flight

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  Bernauer Straße 1 on 19 August 1963, with the memorial to Rudolf Urban in front of the house

  Photo: Roger Wollstadt. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Rudolf Urban's rope descent from Bernauer Straße 1

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  Memorial plaque for Rudolf Urban on Bernauer Straße, Berlin-Mitte (2021)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Rudolf Urban's rope descent from Bernauer Straße 1

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  Bernauer Straße 48 on 6 June 1965, the house bricked up, with the memorial to Ida Siekmann in front

  Photo: Willy Pragher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · Used on Ida Siekmann, first death at the Berlin Wall

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  The memorial for Ida Siekmann on Bernauer Straße, Berlin-Mitte (2022)

  Photo: Singlespeedfahrer. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on Ida Siekmann, first death at the Berlin Wall

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  Bernauer Straße 37 to 33 on 19 August 1963, including No. 34 where Olga Segler lived, with the windows bricked up

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Olga Segler's jump into the fire brigade net

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  Memorial stele for Olga Segler in front of the site of Bernauer Straße 34 (2015)

  Photo: Brewer Bob. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Olga Segler's jump into the fire brigade net

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978; Bernd Lünser tried to escape from its roof in 1961

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Bernd Lünser's fatal rooftop jump

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  Memorial plaque for Bernd Lünser at Bernauer Straße 44, Berlin-Mitte (2019)

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Bernd Lünser's fatal rooftop jump

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  The corner house Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in January 1978

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on Bricklayer Norbert Raasch jumps while walling up windows

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  Harzer Straße on the Neukölln–Treptow border in November 1986

  Photo: Roehrensee. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Fire-net escapes at Harzer Straße, Treptow

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  The Wall at the corner of Bouchéstraße and Harzer Straße on 18 November 1989

  Photo: Florian Schäffer. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Fire-net escapes at Harzer Straße, Treptow

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  The manhole cover inscribed 'Einstieg zur Freiheit' (entrance to freedom) in front of Neue Grünstraße 16, Berlin-Mitte, photographed in 2022. It marks where student escape helpers led East Berliners into the sewer in autumn 1961. It was laid in 2015; it is not the original cover.

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Berlin Wall Escape Helpers: Students, Smugglers and Stasi Spies

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  The GDR Supreme Court trial of escape helper Harry Seidel, 27 December 1962 (East German state photo, ADN-Zentralbild). Two days later he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-A1227-0007-001 / Rudolf Hesse. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Berlin Wall Escape Helpers: Students, Smugglers and Stasi Spies

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  Memorial plaque for escape helper Heinz Jercha at Heidelberger Straße 35, Neukölln, photographed in 2012. The tunnel he died in was dug from this house.

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Berlin Wall Escape Helpers: Students, Smugglers and Stasi Spies

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  Steel plates in the grass of the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße mark the route of Tunnel 57, dug by Wolfgang Fuchs's group in 1964 (photographed 2011).

  Photo: N-Lange.de. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Berlin Wall Escape Helpers: Students, Smugglers and Stasi Spies

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  Ground plaque at Zimmerstraße 54, Berlin-Mitte, unveiled in 2018 (photographed 2018): an East Berlin family escaped under this street on 18 June 1962, and 'owing to tragic circumstances' border soldier Reinhold Huhn was shot dead by an escape helper.

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Berlin Wall Escape Helpers: Students, Smugglers and Stasi Spies

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  GDR passport and customs officers checking cars at the Drewitz crossing on the transit route into West Berlin, 31 March 1972 (East German state photo). Hartmut Richter was caught here in 1975 with his sister in his car boot.

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0331-0005 / Hartmut Reiche. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on Berlin Wall Escape Helpers: Students, Smugglers and Stasi Spies

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  The preserved border strip of the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße, seen from the Documentation Centre's viewing tower in July 2019: the hinterland wall, the sand-covered strip and the front wall, with an M10 tram on Bernauer Straße.

  Photo: Matthias Süßen. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Walking the Berlin Wall Escape Routes: A Self-Guided Tour

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  The memorial grounds at the corner of Bernauer Straße and Strelitzer Straße in June 2016: steel rods trace the line of the Wall, and the photo mural on the gable shows the street in 1961. The Tunnel 57 markers are in this part of the grounds.

  Photo: Fridolin freudenfett. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on Walking the Berlin Wall Escape Routes: A Self-Guided Tour

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  Sculpture on the former border strip at Bernauer Straße near Ruppiner Straße recalling Conrad Schumann's jump of 15 August 1961 (photographed October 2009).

  Photo: Jotquadrat. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Walking the Berlin Wall Escape Routes: A Self-Guided Tour

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  The Tunnel 29 plaque at Schönholzer Straße 7, Berlin-Mitte (photographed 2010). From the cellar here, 29 people crawled through the tunnel to West Berlin in September 1962.

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Walking the Berlin Wall Escape Routes: A Self-Guided Tour

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  The Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree in August 2018. From 1961 to 1989 the river here was the border, and the bridge was a crossing point for pedestrians.

  Photo: Paul Korecky. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on Walking the Berlin Wall Escape Routes: A Self-Guided Tour

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  The Pfingsttunnel ground plaque in front of Heidelberger Straße 81, at the corner of Elsenstraße, recalling the 55 East Berliners it names as escaping on 11 June 1962 (photographed 2013).

  Photo: Assenmacher. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on Walking the Berlin Wall Escape Routes: A Self-Guided Tour

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  The Günter Litfin memorial in the former GDR border command tower at Kieler Straße 2, Berlin-Mitte (July 2024).

  Photo: Neuköllner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on Walking the Berlin Wall Escape Routes: A Self-Guided Tour

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  Steel plates set into the grass at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße trace the course of an escape tunnel dug in 1964 (photographed 2014). No free photograph of a tunnel escape in progress is available; this is the memorial today.

  Photo: Tony Webster from Portland, Oregon, United States. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on The Tunnels Under the Berlin Wall: Who Dug Them, Who Got Out

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  East German press photo dated 1 February 1962: men inspect the opened brick arches under Wollankstraße S-Bahn station, where students had started a tunnel that collapsed before anyone could use it. The GDR transport ministry held an international press conference on the tunnel that day; the archive's original caption calls it an 'agent sluice'.

  Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-90187-0004 / Peter Heinz Junge. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Used on The Tunnels Under the Berlin Wall: Who Dug Them, Who Got Out

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  Memorial plaque for Tunnel 29 at Schönholzer Straße 7 in Mitte, where the tunnel ended and 29 people escaped on 14–15 September 1962 (plaque from 2009, photographed 2010).

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Tunnels Under the Berlin Wall: Who Dug Them, Who Got Out

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  Plaque at Strelitzer Straße 55, where Tunnel 57 ended: it records the escape of 57 people on 3–4 October 1964 and the death of border guard Egon Schultz, killed by a comrade's bullet (photographed 2010).

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Tunnels Under the Berlin Wall: Who Dug Them, Who Got Out

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  Plaque at Kremmener Straße 15 for the tunnel dug from East Berlin and discovered in May 1963 (photographed 2012).

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Tunnels Under the Berlin Wall: Who Dug Them, Who Got Out

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  Plaque at Brunnenstraße 141 for the 1971 tunnel under Bernauer Straße: 120 m long, 7 m deep, 1.20 m wide, discovered on 26 February 1971, 17 would-be escapees arrested. Other sources give different figures (see text). Commons files the photo as 'Tunnel 37'; the plaque is about the 1971 tunnel (photographed 2010).

  Photo: OTFW, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Tunnels Under the Berlin Wall: Who Dug Them, Who Got Out

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  Sculpture of Conrad Schumann's leap on the former border strip at Bernauer Straße near Ruppiner Straße (2009). He jumped the barbed wire here on 15 August 1961.

  Photo: Jotquadrat. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Guards Who Ran: Border Soldiers Who Fled Over the Wall

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  The same Schumann sculpture at Bernauer Straße, photographed in August 2026.

  Photo: Phi. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Used on The Guards Who Ran: Border Soldiers Who Fled Over the Wall

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  The corner of Bernauer Straße and Ruppiner Straße in August 1963, two years after Schumann's jump. By then the barbed wire had become a wall and the border houses' windows were bricked up.

  Photo: Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on The Guards Who Ran: Border Soldiers Who Fled Over the Wall

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  East German police on top of the Berlin Wall on 14 November 1989, five days after the border opened (US Air Force photo).

  Photo: Staff Sergeant F. Lee Cockran. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on The Guards Who Ran: Border Soldiers Who Fled Over the Wall

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  Memorial stele for border soldier Ulrich Steinhauer at the Eiskeller, Spandau (2012). He was shot in 1980 by the young guard on his patrol, who was deserting.

  Photo: Pemba.mpimaji. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Guards Who Ran: Border Soldiers Who Fled Over the Wall

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  The Wall and the border strip at Potsdamer Platz, seen from the West Berlin viewing platform in February 1978.

  Photo: Rüdiger Stehn from Kiel, Deutschland. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Used on How Many People Escaped the Berlin Wall?

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  Six years on: walls, fences and anti-tank barriers by the Brandenburg Gate (today's Platz des 18. März), 25 August 1967.

  Photo: Friedrich Haag. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on How Many People Escaped the Berlin Wall?

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  The corner house at Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße in 1978, its shutters down and ground-floor openings bricked up.

  Photo: John Spooner. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on How Many People Escaped the Berlin Wall?

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  The finished system from the air: the Wall and its pale, raked border strip around the West Berlin exclave of Steinstücken in 1989 (US Air Force photograph).

  Photo: CMSgt. Don Sutherland. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Used on How Many People Escaped the Berlin Wall?

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  The outer ring on the Wall's last anniversary: the border strip between Frohnau and Hohen Neuendorf, 13 August 1989.

  Photo: Lothar Weber. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on How Many People Escaped the Berlin Wall?

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  The surviving stretch of the Wall on Niederkirchnerstraße in 2019, with the former Haus der Ministerien behind it. In July 1965 the Holzapfel family slid on a cable from its roof over this border strip.

  Photo: Pymouss. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The Most Ingenious Berlin Wall Escapes, and How They Worked

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  Schmollerstraße in Alt-Treptow in 2011. According to Wikipedia, Holger Bethke and Michael Becker crossed from an attic in this street in 1983 on a steel cable; berlinwallmap.info places it near Lohmühlenstraße.

  Photo: Lotse. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Most Ingenious Berlin Wall Escapes, and How They Worked

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  The Reichstag seen from the west in January 1985. In May 1989 the Bethke brothers landed their microlights in front of it.

  Photo: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Used on The Most Ingenious Berlin Wall Escapes, and How They Worked

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  Albrechtshof station in 2007. In December 1961 Harry Deterling's train went through the last GDR station without stopping.

  Photo: A.Savin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Used on The Most Ingenious Berlin Wall Escapes, and How They Worked

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  A BMW Isetta 300 at a classic car show in Lisbon (2012). Jacobi hid his friend behind the bench seat of a bubble car of this kind, about 2.3 m long.

  Photo: Pedro Ribeiro Simões from Lisboa, Portugal. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Used on The Most Ingenious Berlin Wall Escapes, and How They Worked

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  A VW Beetle converted to hide a person in its front compartment, on display at the Mauermuseum at Checkpoint Charlie (2009). Cars converted like this were used to smuggle people through the checkpoints.

  Photo: Mathieu BROSSAIS. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · Used on The Most Ingenious Berlin Wall Escapes, and How They Worked

Berlin Experiences network thumbnails

The small pictures in the “More from Berlin Experiences” strip on the homepage are the same on every site in the network. The photographs are in the public domain or CC0; the Berlinfographics picture is Berlin Experiences’ own artwork.

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  The Wall Project, Wende Museum, Los Angeles: portions of the Berlin Wall.

  Carol M. Highsmith, public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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  The Wall at Kopenhagener Straße, Wilhelmsruh, from the air.

  AlliiertenMuseum / U.S. Army Photograph, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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  Memorial for Ida Siekmann, Bernauer Straße.

  Singlespeedfahrer, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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  Westendbrücke deconstruction works, 2025.

  Leonhard Lenz, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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  The logo and headline from berlinfographics.com’s own social card.

  Berlin Experiences, own artwork

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  Soviet tanks of the 7th Guards Tank Corps on the approach to Berlin, April 1945.

  Unknown photographer, public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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  The opening session of the Potsdam Conference at Cecilienhof, 17 July 1945.

  U.S. Army Signal Corps, U.S. National Archives (NARA 198799), public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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  The assembly chamber of the Reichstag after the fire of 27 February 1933.

  Press photograph, Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (National Digital Archives of Poland), public domain · Wikimedia Commons