柏林墙〜_50周年The_Ber lin_Wall_~_50th_Anniversary_

8/12/2019 _50 The_Ber lin_Wall_~_50th_Anniversary_

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THE BERLIN WALL

13 AUGUST 1961 ~ 13 AUGUST 2 11


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REMEMBERING THE BERLIN WALL

50 Years ago in 1961, East Germany erected awall -- initially barbed wire, eventually concrete --in the middle of Berlin to prevent its citizens from

fleeing the communist country to West Germanyduring the height of the Cold War. It has beenreported that 136 people died while trying toescape, but the total number is unknown. The

wall finally came down at the beginning ofNovember in 1989, part of the reunification ofEast and West Germany. ~ Lloyd Young

August 13, 2011


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A nun walks in front of a line of wreaths during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the construction of the

Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin Aug ust 13, 2011. Germany marks the 50th anniversary

of the day communist East Germany sealed itself off behind the Wall. Germany had been divided into capitalist western and

communist eastern sectors after the end of World War II. At the height of tensions between the United States and the

Soviet Union, the East German regime started building the wall through the capital on Aug. 13, 1961.

(Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)


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A West Berliner stands at the foot of the Berlin Wall while talking to an East Berliner in 1962. (KRT)


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Spectators stand at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin Aug. 13, 2011(Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)


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A boy sitting on the shoulders of another child peers at the Liesen street in Wedding, West Berlin, over the wall towards theeastern part of the city Aug. 23, 1961. (Werner Kreusch/Associated Press)


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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Berlin's Major Klaus Wowereit, Germany's President Christian Wulff and Axel Klausmeier,

Director of the Berlin Wall Foundation, lay down floral wreaths during a commemorative ceremony of the construction of

the Berlin Wall at the Bernauer Strasse Memorial in Berlin on Aug. 13, 2011 Berlin marked the 50th anniversary of the

building of the Berlin Wall with a memorial service and a minute of silence in memory of those who died trying to fleeto the West. (Carsten Koall/AFP/Getty Images)


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A visitor peeks through a still-existing section of the Berlin Wall into the so-called 'death strip,' where East German border

guards had the order to shoot anyone attempting to flee into West Berlin at the Bernauer Strasse memorial on Aug. 5, 2011(Sean Gallup/Getty Images)


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Tourists posing in front of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin in this June 6, 1989 (left) and a general view ofthe Brandenburg gate Aug. 3, 2011. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)


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A man takes pictures of exhibited photographs of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin during the commemorative

ceremony of the construction of the Berlin Wall on Aug. 13, 2011(Michele Tantussi/AFP/Getty Images)


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A person walks across the plaque and a line of bricks that show where the Berlin Wall used to stand at the Berlin Wall

memorial site in Bernauer Strasse, Aug. 13, 2011. The German capital is preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of thebuilding of the Berlin Wall, which was erected on Aug. 13, 1961. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)


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Tourists look through a part of the former Berlin Wall fortification at the Berlin Wall memorial site in Bernauer Strasse,August 13, 2011. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)


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Tourists in front of a segment of the graffiti painted wall at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, August 13, 2011.(Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters)


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A young West German girl smiling at her fatheras she points to a large hole in the Berlin Wall

November 11, 1989. (Reuters)


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West Berlin youngsters peer through an opening in the wall at Postdammer Platz as East German border guards standand watch .


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West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early Nov. 11, 1989 as they watch East German border guards demolishing a

section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and West Berlin near Potsdamer Square. (AFP)


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Defecting East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann leaps over a barbed wire barricade at the Bernauer Street sector

into West Berlin on Aug. 15, 1961. Schumann made his break for freedom to join his family which had fled earlier to

West Berlin. Schumann, who was immortalized in this photograph as he leapt across the barbed wire fence that became

the Berlin Wall, hanged himself from a tree June 20, 1998 near his garden, police said.(Peter Leibing/Assocaited Press/Contipress)


18/21An inscription "from USSR mit love" on the Berlin Wall Oct.ober 13, 1976. (Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images)


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Peter Fechter is held by East German border

guards, prior to being pronounced dead on

August 17, 1962. Fechter was shot by East

German guards as he tried to make it over

the wall. (Associated Press)


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The sculpture 'Mauerdenkmal 1000' ('Wall memorial 1000') by artist Florian Brauer, on the so-called 'death strip',

(no man's land), at the former Berlin Wall site in Bernauer Strasse June 16, 2011. The sculpture, which is part of events the

German capital is holding to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, is based on the scene when East

German citizen Peter Fechter was eventually carried away by a GDR border guard, an hour after he was shot by guards on

Aug. 17, 1962 as he attempted to climb over the Wall to West Berlin. Severely wounded, Fechter fell back onto the border

strip at the base of the Berlin Wall and lay there bleeding to death without medical assistance. West Berlin police were not

permitted to intervene, nor did the border troops of the western Allies at Checkpoint Charlie get involved. He was notcarried away by GDR border guards until almost an hour later. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)


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