Berlin Wall (1961)

Views of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

GDR NPA soldiers sit at the foot of the columns.

A mobile patrol of the GDR People's Police at the Brandenburg Gate.

Faces of police officers.

A distinctive sign on the sleeve of one of the police officers.

The patrol car moves off, the armed sentry remains at the gate.

Columns of the Brandenburg Gate, bas-reliefs on the walls.

A statue of a saint with traces of bullets and shrapnel.

The interior of the church destroyed in 1945. The steps of the Reichstag overgrown with grass.

Remains of buildings destroyed during the storming of Berlin.

Panorama of the remaining wall of a destroyed house.

A soldier of the GDR army and an employee of the People's Police on a joint patrol at the Brandenburg Gate.

A machine gun in the hands of a police officer, the face of a police officer.

Production processes in an electrical cable manufacturing workshop.

Views of the Berlin Wall.

A checkpoint at one of the sections of the wall.

Panorama of part of the wall and the adjacent quarter of West Berlin.

View of part of the neutral territory.

Panorama of part of the territory in the area of the wall, a train passes along the wall.

Employees of the GDR People's Police at their posts.

An American checkpoint on the other side of the wall.

The GDR and West Berlin military and police observe each other through the wall.

The head of the GDR military patrol conducts surveillance with binoculars, an American armored personnel carrier in the Western Sector.

Panorama of the barbed wire fence.

American soldiers at their posts in the Western Sector.

Street views of the French sector of responsibility.

French military patrols in cars and armored personnel carriers drive along the streets of West Berlin.

Street views of West Berlin in the area of the checkpoint in the American sector, a car drives by.

Police check the documents of drivers.

Another car heads to the Eastern Sector.

Checking the documents of drivers entering the Eastern Sector.

American journalists observe the Eastern Sector.

Faces of West Berliners.

American military patrols on the streets of West Berlin.

An American soldier talks to girls on the street.

Public transport on the streets of West and East Berlin, people's faces outside the bus window.

People on the streets of East Berlin.

A woman walks with a small child.

People at a bus stop getting on a bus.

View of a traffic controller's booth.

A traffic controller in a booth monitors car traffic.

Views of the streets of East Berlin.

Furniture designers who remained in East Berlin at work.

An electrical engineer who moved to East Berlin makes calculations.

A saleswoman from Charlottenburg who remained in East Berlin serves customers.

Faces of children playing in a sandbox.

Children and their parents swim and play in an outdoor pool.

Views of the territory of one of the suburban recreation areas in the vicinity of East Berlin, people relax in nature.

A girl on board a yacht.

Sailing yachts at the pier.

Faces of girls sunbathing on the shore.

People relaxing in deck chairs.

View of part of the coastal recreation area in the evening.

Broken street lamps.

GDR soldiers at their post at the Berlin Wall.

Panorama of part of the wall under construction.

Hooligans from West Berlin make offensive gestures from behind the wall.