“We’re in Berlin!”
Written by Soviet soldiers on a column in the Reichstag
Two brothers meet for a Christmas reunion after having been separated by the Berlin Wall (at this point only two years old). It was the first meeting of East/West relatives allowed by the East German government following the wall’s construction.
West Berlin - 1963
(Photo by Ian Berry)
Two young girls in a West Germans street chat with their grandparents in the window of their home in the Eastern sector, separated only by a barbed wire barricade. It was a common occurrence for families, who had once only lived on the opposite side of the street from one another, to become separated by the ever growing Berlin Wall.
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Audio of American journalist Daniel Schorr’s report from Berlin on August 13, 1961; the day on which the East Germany government began construction of the Berlin Wall.
This morning East Berlin presents an eerie picture:
Communist troops in force on every street corner. Soldiers of the Communist National Army drawn up along the sector boundary with columns of armored cars, and behind them, by the tens of thousands, the worker’s militia in their sloppy brown uniforms and visored caps bearing an uncanny resemblance to the stormtroopers of Adolf Hitler…
…East Berlin is an armed camp. It is also a witch’s cauldron, gradually coming to a boil.
“A girl looks at the Berlin Wall through a frosty window which reflects the Wall’s silhouetted barbed wire in December 1962.”
Soviet soldier-mortar Sergei Ivanovich Platov leaves his autograph on a column of the Reichstag, 1945.
Anatoly Morozov
“Run on Berlin bank when war declared” - 1914.
British General Montgomery along with Soviet generals Zhukov, Sokolovsky, Rokossovsky and others at the Brandenburg Gate.
Berlin, Germany - July 12, 1945.
German women cleaning up rubble in Berlin following the end WWII.
Many women were called upon to help in these efforts due to the fact that a large portion of the male population died during the war.
Berlin, Germany - 1945.
Damage to the Reichstag building following the Battle of Berlin.
