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Archive - Fall of the Berlin Wall 

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The Berlin Wall stretched over a hundred miles. It ran not only through the centre of Berlin, but also wrapped around West Berlin, entirely cutting it off from the rest of East Germany. By 1989 it had been transformed into an 80 meter wide no-man’s-land, with an additional inner wall, soldiers patrolling with dogs, a raked ground that showed footprints, anti-vehicle trenches, electric fences, light systems, watchtowers, bunkers, and minefields.

There had been signs in 1988 and 1989 that the Communist bloc was weakening, as Communism began to falter in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. On the... 

Raymond Depardon 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. Throughout East Germany, tens of thousands of... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. East Berlin. November 12th 1989. The Fall of the Berlin... 

Guy Le Querrec 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. The wall. Saturday 30th December, 1989. 

Raymond Depardon 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. Between the... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. The press... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. Crowds during the imediate aftermath of the... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. Crowds during the imediate aftermath of the... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. Crowds during the imediate aftermath of the... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. West Germans... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. An East German... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. Crowds during the imediate aftermath of the... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. November 9, 1989.... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. West Germans... 

Guy Le Querrec 1989

GERMANY. East Berlin. Brandenburg Gate. People celebrating New... 

Guy Le Querrec 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. On the wall, people celebrating New Year's Eve.... 

Raymond Depardon 1989

GERMANY. The fall of the Berlin Wall. November 1989.
November... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. West Germans... 

Raymond Depardon 1989

GERMANY. Berlin.
Throughout East Germany, tens of thousands of... 

Raymond Depardon 1989

GERMANY. November 11, 1989. A crack in the Berlin Wall becomes... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. West Berliners... 

Guy Le Querrec 1989

West Berlin. Near the Brandenburg gate.

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. East Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. East German... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. Emotional... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. West Germans... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. East Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. East Germans... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. West Berlin... 

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. East Berlin. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. East Germans... 

Steve McCurry 1989

EAST GERMANY. December 1989. Person chipping pieces of the wall... 

Gilles Peress 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. Fall of Berlin Wall.. 

Raymond Depardon 1989

Years of burning curiosity are finally relieved. 

Bruno Barbey 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. Graffiti on the Berlin Wall. 1989. 

Gilles Peress 1989

1989. West Germany. Berlin. West Berliners demonstrate in front... 

Steve McCurry 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. 1988.

Bruno Barbey 1989

GERMANY. November 1989. East Berliners, visiting the West, arrive... 

Guy Le Querrec 1989

GERMANY. East Berlin. Brandenburg Gate. Sunday 31st december... 

Thomas Hoepker 1990

GERMANY, Berlin, 1990. 3rd of October 1990, Reunification celebration... 

Thomas Hoepker 1990

EAST GERMANY. 1990. Window in East Berlin after the fall of the... 

Guy Le Querrec 1989

Sunday 31st December 1989. New Years' Eve. At about 9pm. 

Leonard Freed 1961

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1961. At Checkpoint Charlie, American... 

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY, BERLIN, 1961. Westerners watching across the wall while... 

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY, BERLIN, 1961. Westerners watching across the wall while... 

Burt Glinn 1961

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1961. West Berliners trying to make... 

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY, BERLIN, 1961. Waving to the east as the wall goes up.... 

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY, WEST BERLIN,1961. East German workman bricking up window... 

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY. West Berlin. 1961. Western lady talks to Eastern friend... 

Thomas Hoepker 1963

GERMANY. West Berlin. 1963. Child with scooter at the Berlin... 

Thomas Hoepker 1963

GERMANY. Berlin. 1963. Children playing at the Berlin Wall in... 

Thomas Hoepker 2005

GERMANY, Berlin, 1963. Children climbing at the Berlin Wall in... 

Rene Burri 1961

The Brandenburger Gate seen from the west through barbed wire... 

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 1962

WEST GERMANY. 1962. West Berlin. The Berlin wall. 

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 1962

WEST GERMANY. 1962. West Berlin. The Berlin wall. 

Jean Gaumy 1977

WEST GERMANY. March 1977. Berlin. An area of the city on the... 

UME 1988

GERMANY. West Berlin. 1988. The wall.
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Peter Marlow 1980

WEST GERMANY. The Berlin Wall was a physical barrier separating... 

Ferdinando Scianna 1990

GERMANY. Berlin. 1992. The Wall. 

Ferdinando Scianna 1992

GERMANY. Berlin. 1992. The Wall. 
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Thomas Hoepker 1991

GERMANY, 1991. Remnants of the German Wall near Magdeburg in... 

Ferdinando Scianna 1992

GERMANY. Berlin. 1992. The Wall. 
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Ian Berry 2000

Germany. Berlin. All that remains of Checkpoint Charlie, on... 

Ian Berry 2000

Germany. Berlin. Visitors peer through cracks in a reconstruction... 
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