The fall of the Berlin Wall

• The fall of the Berlin Wall

August 13, 1961, East Germany erected the wall - first of barbed wire, then of concrete - in the heart of Berlin, to prevent the flight of its citizens and the mass leakage of specialists in the more prosperous West Germany.

While trying to escape across the Berlin Wall, a length of 155 km and a height of 3.6 m, killed more than 125 people, but the exact number remains unknown. About 5 000 people managed to overcome this obstacle.

In November 1989, there was a fall of the Berlin Wall, which is part of the reunification of East and West Germany.

Photo report of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Construction of the Berlin Wall began August 13, 1961. At night, the border between West and East Berlin were moved troops who blocked all border areas, which are in the city.

The picture was taken August 13, 1961. People curiously watching the scene.

To August 15, 1961 the entire western area was surrounded by barbed wire and began the construction of the wall. Metro lines have been severed into western and eastern halves

Analysis of rails for trains going from east to west, 26 August 1961.

is already built a concrete section of the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin, 4 December 1961. The height - 2.13 m, thickness - 1.5 m behind the iron obstruction designs seen a big sign -. Emblem of East Germany.

The border guard, 1961.

along the border were demolished single houses, in October 1961.

A girl from East Germany, behind the barbed wire of the Berlin Wall, in October 1961.

The workers erected the Berlin Wall. Behind the visible church. In total, construction and refurbishment of the walls lasted from 1962 to 1975.

An attempt to cross from East to West Berlin, October 16, 1961.

The Berlin Wall, June 1968.

An aerial view of the wall and Berlinckuyu booth border guards, left - the cemetery, 1978.

Another defector, he was wounded by border guards of the machine gun, 1971.

When trying to cross the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989 documented the deaths of 125 people. The exact number is unknown. This man shot the guards from a tower, August 17, 1962.

The Brandenburg Gate, where the Berlin Wall, dividing the city into eastern and western part, 19 November 1961.

The Brandenburg Gate in the fog, the Berlin Wall and the man on the watchtower, November 25, 1961.

This is the famous shot of Peter Leybinga - GDR Army soldiers running from the eastern to the western sector of Berlin. The Berlin Wall divided it with his family, who remained in West Germany. August 15, 1961, on the third day after the start of construction of the Berlin Wall 19-year-old serviceman of Border Troops Conrad Schumann leapt over the coils of barbed wire, indicating the line of the future wall, and ran to the car, the West Berlin police.

Many years later, June 20, 1998, suffering from a severe mental illness, Schumann had committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree near his home.

That jump 15 August 1961 from one world to another has become one of the symbols of the "cold war."

The West German builders in West Berlin at the Wall that separates the city, April 18, 1967.

The last major reconstruction of the Berlin Wall was in 1975. By 1989 godu wall it was of a complicated set of concrete barriers total length of 106 km and a height of an average of 3, 6 meters.

The device of the Berlin Wall: the fence of metal mesh - 66.5 km; signaling fence under electric voltage - 127.5 km; earthen ditches - 105.5 km; anti-strengthening; 302 watchtowers.

Berlin Wall. Image date is unknown.

The leader of the Movement for the civil rights of blacks in the US Martin Luther King at the Berlin Wall, September 13, 1964.

The mass escape of 57 people through the tunnel from East to West Berlin in October 1964. Total during the existence of walls around 5 000 people managed to overcome this obstacle.

Graffiti on the Berlin Wall, which obscures the Brandenburg Gate, 1988.

A series of 3 shots. Two residents of East Berlin jumps trying to overcome border barriers, border guards caught by surprise, in April 1989.

But failed.

The border guard, in April 1989.

November 9, 1989 under the influence of the mass popular uprisings of the GDR government has lifted restrictions on the message to West Berlin, and on July 1, 1990 fully abolished border controls. At all border facilities were demolished, except for the length of 1.3 km, left as a monument to one of the most famous symbols of the Cold War, during January-November 1990. The meeting of Western and Eastern parts of Berlin, 10 November 1989.

November 10, 1989, near the Brandenburg Gate. Residents of one of Berlin scale walls, residents of the other side of the city to help them.

The symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall. A crowd of happy people and people with a hammer, November 12, 1989.

November 9, 1989 the GDR government spokesman announced the new rules of the country of exit and entry. According to the decision, the citizens of the GDR could get a visa for an immediate visit to West Berlin.

Hundreds of thousands of East Germans, without waiting for the appointed time, rushed to the evening of November 9 to the border. Border guards, receiving no orders, first tried to push the crowd, using water cannons, but then, yielding to the pressure of the mass, were forced to open the border.

Demolition portion walls 11 Noyabrya 1989.

Thousands of GDR citizens wishing to get to West Germany. Welcome guests from the East left thousands of residents of West Berlin. What is happening reminds folk festival. Happiness and brotherhood washed away all government barriers and obstacles. West Berliners, in turn, began to cross the border, breaking in the eastern part of the city.

Decades later part of the Berlin Wall were scattered around the world. These fragments, for example, were put up for sale in the town of Teltow near Berlin, November 8, 2013.