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Distro - The Rise And Fall Of The Berlin Wall 

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At the end of World War II, the Allied powers divided Germany into four zones, controlled by either the United States, Great Britain, France, or the Soviet Union. The same was done with Germany’s capital city,Berlin. Since the city of Berlin had been situated entirely within the Soviet zone of occupation, West Berlinbecame an island of democracy within Communist East Germany.
By the late 1950s living conditions in West Germany and East Germany had become distinctly different andmany people living in East Germany wanted to move to the more affluent west.
Having already lost 2.5 million people by... 

Burt Glinn 1961

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

Burt Glinn 1961

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

Burt Glinn 1961

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

Burt Glinn 1961

West Germany. Berlin Wall. 

Burt Glinn 1961

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

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY, BERLIN, 1961. East German soldiers at barbed wire dividing... 

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY,WEST BERLIN,1961. West Berliners on Bernuer Strasse corner... 

Burt Glinn 1961

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

Burt Glinn 1961

West Germany. Berlin Wall. 

Burt Glinn 1961

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

Rene Burri 1961

West Berliners making signs to friends and relatives on the other... 

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY, BERLIN, 1961. Westerners watching through a chink in... 

Burt Glinn 1961

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

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMAN, BERLIN. 1961. East German soldiers start work on the... 

Burt Glinn 1961

GERMANY, BERLIN, 1961. West German observers on building top... 

Rene Burri 1961

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

Rene Burri 1961

Checkpoint Charlie, poste-frontière avec la R.D.A. 

Rene Burri 1961

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1961. Along the Berlin Wall. 

Rene Burri 1961

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1961. 

Thomas Hoepker 1963

GERMANY. West Berlin. 1963. A man takes souvenir photos of his... 

Jean Gaumy 1977

WEST GERMANY. March 1977. Berlin. Buildings on the East side,... 

Rene Burri 1961

WEST GERMANY. Berlin. Brandenburg Gate with russian officers.... 

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. 

Raymond Depardon 1962

GERMANY. West Berlin. Children playing at "building the Wall".... 

Thomas Hoepker 1963

GERMANY. Berlin. Children playing at the Berlin Wall in Berlin-Wedding.... 

Ian Berry 1963

West Germany. Berlin. 1963. Christmas time. Two brothers meet... 

Leonard Freed 1961

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

Leonard Freed 1961

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1961. Children play on the west side... 

Raymond Depardon 1965

EUROPE. Germany. 1965.

Raymond Depardon 1962

GERMANY. West Berlin. US Attorney General Robert Francis KENNEDY... 
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Leonard Freed 1965

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1965. West Germans looking over the... 

Jean Gaumy 1977

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1977. The Berlin Wall and in the background... 

Peter Marlow 1980

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

Jean Gaumy 1977

A memorial to victims who tried to pass the frontier of the Berlin... 

Peter Marlow 1980

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

Peter Marlow 1980

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

Peter Marlow 1980

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

Erich Hartmann 1981

WEST GERMANY. Berlin. 1981. Graffiti on the Berlin Wall. 

UME 1988

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Wall. 1988. 

Josef Koudelka 1988

GERMANY. West Berlin. The Berlin Wall. 1988. 

Gilles Peress 1989

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

Gilles Peress 1989

Demonstration in streets of East Berlin. 

Mark Power 1989

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

Mark Power 1989

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

Mark Power 1989

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

Mark Power 1989

GERMANY. West Berlin. November 10th 1989. The Fall of the Berlin... 

Raymond Depardon 1989

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

Raymond Depardon 1989

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

Mark Power 1989

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

Raymond Depardon 1989

Crowds gather in the streets to welcome visitors from the East.... 

Raymond Depardon 1989

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

Raymond Depardon 1989

A crack in the Berlin Wall becomes a symbol of new freedom between... 

Mark Power 1989

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

Raymond Depardon 1989

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

Raymond Depardon 1989

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

Gilles Peress 1989

GERMANY. Berlin. Fall of Berlin Wall.. 

Guy Le Querrec 1989

R.D.A. Berlin Est. Brandenburger Tor (La Porte de Brandebourg).... 

Rene Burri 1989

GERMANY. December 23rd, 1989. The Brandenburg gate. 

Rene Burri 1989

EAST GERMANY. Berlin.
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