Berlin Wall Gallery

Following WWII on August 13 1961, overnight the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. The wall included over 300 watchtowers, 106km of concrete and 66.5km of wire fencing completely surrounding West Berlin, preventing any access from East Germany. The official purpose was to keep Western "fascists" from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.

Choose from 55 images in our Berlin Wall Collection

Brandenburg Snowman

Red army soldiers raising the soviet flag over the reichstag in berlin, germany, april 30, 1945

Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany

Rural view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Observation post near Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Military Police guard, West Berlin, Germany

Soldiers at a checkpoint, East Berlin, Germany

Men at a checkpoint, Berlin, Germany

Observation tower near Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Underground station entrance, East Berlin, Germany

Depressing view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Weeds growing by the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

University building, Unter den Linden, East Berlin, Germany

Unter den Linden, East Berlin, Germany

Brandenburg Gate at night, East Berlin, Germany

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany

Border guards in East Berlin, Germany

Sign in four languages, Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Berlin Wall Memorial

East And West

Rural view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Rural view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Rural view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Rural view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Observation post near Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Soldiers at a checkpoint, East Berlin, Germany

Soldiers at a checkpoint, East Berlin, Germany

Soldiers at a checkpoint, East Berlin, Germany

Soldiers at a checkpoint, East Berlin, Germany

Observation tower near Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Observation tower near Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Observation tower near Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Unter den Linden, East Berlin, Germany

Unter den Linden, East Berlin, Germany

Depressing view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Depressing view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Depressing view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Depressing view of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Unter den Linden, East Berlin, Germany

Brandenburg Gate at night, East Berlin, Germany

Border guards in East Berlin, Germany

Actual entrance to the American sector in Berlin

Brandenburg Gate

Achtung

Potsdamer Platz

Berlin Wall

View over the Berlin Wall in 1985 with apartment buildings on both sides, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Walking the Berlin Wall

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