Berlin Wall (1961-1964)

Funeral wreaths on barbed wire in memory of those killed while trying to break through to West Berlin in the neighborhoods near the Berlin Wall.

Photographs of GDR soldiers and border guards at their posts near the Berlin Wall.

A window of a building facing west and bricked up.

Photographs of Berliners trying to break through to the Western Sector.

Berliners who were given permission to move to the western part of the city are moving their belongings and furniture.

GDR border guards at their posts near the Berlin Wall.

Demolition of buildings near the Berlin Wall.

West and East Berliners communicate through the wall using Morse code and posters.

People behind the wall wave handkerchiefs to their families.

An elderly woman wipes away tears.

An GDR border guard at his posts.

A crying girl.

An elderly woman looks out the window at the western part of Berlin.

A man waves his cap.

Faces of GDR border guards.

Faces of a man and a woman.

Work to strengthen and extend the Berlin Wall.

Panorama of a section of the wall during work.

Views and panoramas of the districts of greater Berlin and the Berlin Wall (above).

Section of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

Views of the streets of Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate during Christmas celebrations.

A checkpoint with a barrier on one of the sections of the Berlin Wall.

Packing Christmas parcels, work process at the post office.

Addresses on packages and parcels.

Parcels on a conveyor belt.

Work process at the post office.

Checking parcels for drugs.

Road sign indicating the direction to Holland.

People walking towards the Dutch border.

Views of the streets of a border settlement in the GDR. People who arrived from Holland carry bags of food out of the doors of the checkpoint.

A queue of trucks at the border.

The driver of one of the trucks is having lunch, sitting on the running board of the cabin.

View of the checkpoint to the American zone, movement of cars across the border, panorama of the watchtower.

A convoy of American military police at the border.

Faces of American servicemen.

Movement of American military equipment through a checkpoint.

Movement of American troops in Berlin during the crisis of 1961. Refugees from the Soviet occupation zone move west, accompanied by American troops.

Map of Greater Berlin with railway lines, divided by the Berlin Wall (animation).

Closed railway track.

Diagram of railways built to bypass Greater Berlin (animation).

Construction of a railway bridge, transportation of a bridge section by water.

Diagram of the railway ring line around Greater Berlin (animation).

A man and a teenager walk along the sleepers.

View of a railway track.

A passenger train passes.

Railway tracks overgrown with young trees outside the train window.

Entrance to one of the closed metro stations in Berlin divided by the wall.

Views of the building of the station that no longer functions.

Barbed wire fencing on a section of the GDR-FRG border (panorama).

Barriers on railways and roads.

Power line poles and masts with removed wires.

Wire barriers on the streets of a German settlement dividing the yard of a house.

Photographs of walls and barriers on the GDR-FRG border.

Panorama of a border settlement.

Signs warning of mined sections of the border.

Views of city streets with restricted areas.

Panorama of one of the border sections.

Wire barrier on the border, GDR border guards at the wire, detaining border violators.

GDR border guards train young border residents in handling weapons and guarding the border.

Border observation tower.

Faces of border guards.

Arrival at the Berlin police department of employees wishing to resign.

Handing in their uniforms.

Checkpoint on the border of West and East Berlin.

Poster on the wall.

Loudspeakers on the roof of a minibus.

GDR border guards at one of the border sections.

A minibus with loudspeakers on the roof near the border.

GDR soldiers at one of the border sections during a broadcast to the adjacent territory.

Broadcast to the adjacent territory via loudspeakers.

People listen to the radio broadcast.

GDR border guards on an observation tower.

GDR border guards monitor the adjacent territory.