The Berlin Wall (43 page)

Götz Bergander, at the Reichstag, 1960

Bergander’s fiancée, Regine, West Berlin, 1960

East German refugee Joachim Trenkner in his new ‘Bubble Car’, summer 1961

US troops escort American officials into the East at Checkpoint Charlie, October 1961

A
Vopo
searches a tunnel, January 1962

High noon in the Friedrichstrasse, 28 October 1961

‘Freedom Train’ driver Harry Deterling and family, December 1961

Peter Fechter dying at the Wall, 17 August 1962

President Kennedy
(fourth from left)
in Berlin, June 1963

Vopos
patrol a cemetery by the Wall, 1963

Cracks in the Wall, 1966

Everyday terror–the Wall in the 1980s

Competitive building (West): Axel Springer’s headquarters, right beside the Wall, with Peter Fechter memorial
(foreground )

Competitive building (East): Karl-Marx-Allee (formerly Stalinallee) with television tower
(left background)
and Hotel Stadt Berlin under construction
(right background)