The Berlin Wall (42 page)

The Blockade–coming in to land at Tempelhof, 1948

Stones against tanks, 17 June 1953

The Kurfürstendamm, West Berlin, 1960

‘No one intends to build a wall,’ Walter Ulbricht, 15 June 1961

Exhausted refugees, Marienfelde reception camp, July 1961

The first hours–border troops on the Potsdamer Platz, 13 August 1961

Building the Wall, August 1961

East German Workers’ Militiamen, 14 August 1961

Families divided, August 1961

Families flee, Bernauer Strasse, August 1961

Conrad Schumann jumps the wire, 15 August 1961

A 77-year-old East Berliner caught in a tug of war between
Vopos
at the window and West Berliners below, Bernauer Strasse, 24 September 1961

General Clay
(left)
, Vice-President Johnson
(centre)
and Mayor Brandt
(right)
, 20 August 1961

Berliners welcome US reinforcements, 20 August 1961