The Berlin Wall (42 page)

Read The Berlin Wall Online

Authors: Frederick Taylor

BOOK: The Berlin Wall
11.23Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

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

Other books

Dawn's Acapella by Libby Robare
The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White
The Relic Guild by Edward Cox
Hunger Eats a Man by Nkosinathi Sithole
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
The Last of the Lumbermen by Brian Fawcett
House of Blues by Julie Smith
Assignment in Brittany by Helen Macinnes