US soldiers and People's Police officers at checkpoint Fried
Soldiers of the US Army standing on the western side of Berlin and People's Police officers of the GDR, with water guns, standing on the eastern side of Berlin on 24th August 1961 at checkpoint Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. From the 13th August 1961, the day of the construction of the Wall, until the fall of the Wall on the 9th November 1989, the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR were seperated into West and East by an Iron Curtain
Picture No
10648465
Media ID
45211976
Size
4886px x 3765px
(2.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / picture alliance / Gunter Bratke
Date
24-Aug-61
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