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  • An open top tourist boat sails along the river spree passing Berlin central train station Berlin Hauptbahnhof on 11th October 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
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  • The river spree looking from Spreebogen over towards Berlin central train station Berlin Hauptbahnhof on 11th October 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Tourists visit the Brandenburg Gate at night on 11th October 2019 in Berlin Germany. The 18th century Neoclassical monument is built in the Western part of Berlin and is one of the most famous landmarks in Germany. Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate is often a site for major historical events and is considered not only as a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.
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  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. Two seemingly gay men are kissing on the lips but this is one of the most famous paintings – a symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War. It shows Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
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  • Tourists visit the Brandenburg Gate at night on 11th October 2019 in Berlin Germany. The 18th century Neoclassical monument is built in the Western part of Berlin and is one of the most famous landmarks in Germany. Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate is often a site for major historical events and is considered not only as a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.
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  • Tourists visit the Brandenburg Gate at night on 11th October 2019 in Berlin Germany. The 18th century Neoclassical monument is built in the Western part of Berlin and is one of the most famous landmarks in Germany. Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate is often a site for major historical events and is considered not only as a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.
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  • Tourists visit the Brandenburg Gate at night on 11th October 2019 in Berlin Germany. The 18th century Neoclassical monument is built in the Western part of Berlin and is one of the most famous landmarks in Germany. Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate is often a site for major historical events and is considered not only as a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.
    Germany-Berlin-Brandenburg-Gate2977.jpg
  • A woman taking a picture inside the Holocaust memorial, a memorial on 11th October 2019 in Berlin, Germany to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of 2,711 concrete slabs  covering a 19,000-square-metre site arranged in a grid pattern. Berlin. Germany.
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  • A large metal fence cuts across the centre of Spreebogen park with the Swiss Embassy behind it on 11th October 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Tourists pose for pictures in front of the Reichstag Building on 11th October 2019 in Berlin Germany. The building was constructed in 1890 for the German Empire a major German historical site, it now houses the German Parliament.
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  • Tourists pose for pictures in front of the Reichstag Building on 11th October 2019 in Berlin Germany. The building was constructed in 1890 for the German Empire a major German historical site, it now houses the German Parliament.
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  • Looking across the lawns to the German Chancellery building housing the staff and offices of the German Chancellery, also know as the Bundeskanzleramt on 11th October 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a Trabant car sits wrecked on the corner of Mollstrasse and Hans-Beimler-Strasse in east Berlin former DDR, on 1st June 1990, in Berlin, Germany. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, German youths against Isolationism gather outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, workman carries a wooden panel or door in a Berlin street, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a van drives through a cold early morning central Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic GDR in 1986.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, riot police tower over a young German girl outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Modern medical equipment in the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), A&E department Berlin, Germany. Against the wall, ready for use, is the specialist paraphenalia used to save lives when patients and victims are brought in after accidents in the Berlin area.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, pro-Communist Germans carrying Soviet and DDR flags march in Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Paediatric nurse and humanitarian aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany. Schuh has seen service in Afghanistan and West Africa (Ebola) and is seen here outside the Berlin DRK hospital's entrance. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Paediatric nurse and humanitarian aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany. Schuh has seen service in Afghanistan and West Africa (Ebola) and is seen here in the Berlin DRK hospital's A&E department. <br />
From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Paediatric nurse and humanitarian aid worker Christian Schuh, of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross), Berlin, Germany. Schuh has seen service in Afghanistan and West Africa (Ebola) and is seen here in the Berlin DRK hospital's A&E department. <br />
From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, German youths gather at a war memorial, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a young German woman reads a newspaper at the feet of a Trummerfrau statue honouring the rubble-clearing women after the war in Rathauspark, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Plain stairwell in the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • A worker's tabard hangs on a hook at the German Red Cross (Deutches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Corridor, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) Hospital, Berlin, Germany. Empty gurneys are seen during a quiet period during a day in the life of this medical ward. The sign points visitors and staff to the X-Ray department and a childrens' help reception. The building is spotlessly clean with white walls and polished floors, helping dedeat the presence of bacteria and hence, infections. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Vacant hospital beds of the German Red Cross hospital (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz- DRK)) in Berlin. With over 3.5 million members, it is the third largest Red Cross society in the world. The German Red Cross offers a wide range of services within and outside Germany. GRC provides 52 hospitals and provides also 75% of the blood supply in Germany.
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  • Entrance to the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh157-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh141-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK (German Red Cross) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh152-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Entrance to the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh110-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • A worker's tabard hangs on a hook at the German Red Cross (Deutches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh106-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Corridor, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) Hospital, Berlin, Germany. Empty gurneys are seen during a quiet period during a day in the life of this medical ward. The sign points visitors and staff to the X-Ray department and a childrens' help reception. The building is spotlessly clean with white walls and polished floors, helping dedeat the presence of bacteria and hence, infections. From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh40-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Bust of Henry Dunant (1828-1910), founder of the ICRC, in a stairwell at the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. Jean Henri Dunant, also known as Henry Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern-day Italy. The man whose vision led to the creation of the worldwide Red Cross and Red Crescent movement; he went from riches to rags but became joint recipient of the first Nobel peace prize.
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  • Emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh237-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Maternity tent mock-up in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh176-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • First Aid kits in amergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh242-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Blankets in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh217-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Tents in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh189-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Latrines in emergency supplies warehouse, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK - German Red Cross) at their logistics centre at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Ready for immediate loading into disaster zones, the equipment is stored near to where freight aircraft can fly anywhere in the world. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, with its 187 National Societies, is the world's largest humanitarian network. The German Red Cross is part of this universal community, which started 150 years ago to deliver comprehensive aid to people affected by conflict, disaster, sanitary emergencies, or social hardship, guided solely by their needs. Around four million volunteers and members support the Red Cross in Germany alone.
    christian_schuh207-04-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Where young Germans once risked their lives, graffiti and tags now adorn the concrete surfaces of original sections of the Berlin wall at the East Side Gallery on Muhlenstrasse, Berlin. The site is the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Where young Germans once risked their lives, graffiti and tags now adorn the concrete surfaces of original sections of the Berlin wall at the East Side Gallery on Muhlenstrasse, Berlin. The site is the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Visitors enjoy the art on the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Visitors enjoy the art and an old Trabant car at the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Trabants were the common Socialist vehicle in East Germany, exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Visitors enjoy the art on the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Colourfully-painted sections of the old Berlin Wall are exhibited by local artists opposite the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Aerial landscape of Bernauer Strasse, showing a section of preserved Berlin wall where East Germans were killed while trying to cross the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • An incongruous landscape of an imperial-style statue from the days of the Weimar Republic, with modern bikes and a tourist information dispenser at Humboldt Box in Berlin Mitte. The Humboldt-Box exhibition centre is a beloved tourist attraction in Berlin, glowing blue at the Museumsinsel, across from the Lustgarten and Berlin Cathedral. Visitors are drawn to the model of Berlin circa 1900.
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  • Euros changing hands for bric-a-brac and old possessions, sold at a giant market in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The flea market is visited by tourists and local Berliners and tourists alike, taking place every Sunday on Bernauer Strasse where the wall turned sharp left and cut through where stallholders now offer their wares.
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  • 1950s-era chairs and assorted furniture, bric-a-brac and old possessions being sold at a giant market in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The flea market is visited by tourists and local Berliners and tourists alike, taking place every Sunday on Bernauer Strasse where the wall turned sharp left and cut through where stallholders now offer their wares.
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  • Glassware, crockery, bric-a-brac and old possessions being sold at a giant market in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The flea market is visited by tourists and local Berliners and tourists alike, taking place every Sunday on Bernauer Strasse where the wall turned sharp left and cut through where stallholders now offer their wares.
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  • Children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era. The youngsters use the sloping architecture to slide down to the ground, and a drain. On the roof’s surface has been left the marks of many dirty shoes and scribbled graffiti. The kids are to grow up as free westerners in the newly reformed Germany, after the falloff the Berlin Wall in November 1989. This picture was taken in a few months after that event when the former DDR had been wiped off the modern-day maps. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986
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  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
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  • The poster of an Asian-looking model advertisies a telecoms company services in an internet store window<br />
in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin. Speaking on her smartphone. the lady smiles with the grim background of this area of Berlin, home to immigrants and a population of non-Germans.
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  • Wide landscape and architecture of the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) in Berlin Mitte. The structure is a former city gate, rebuilt in the late 18th century as a neoclassical triumphal arch, and now one of the most well-known landmarks of Germany. It is located west of the city centre of Berlin at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. When the Nazis ascended to power they used the Gate as a party symbol. The Gate only just survived World War II and was one of the damaged structures still standing in the Pariser Platz ruins in 1945 alongside the nearby Reichstag.
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  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
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  • Awaiting the call-up from superior officers, a phalanx of German riot police stand in their ranks, with shields resting on the ground of a central Berlin park. Their orders will be to keep control of protesters in the former eastern sector of the German city, in the months after the fall of the Wall and the communist state, the GDR (German Democratic Republic) or DDR. Because Germany is now one country (though reunification itself has yet to happen), West German officers of the Bundespolizei (BPOL) which is the uniformed federal police force of Germany, wait patiently for orders from their western masters. The Bundespolizei consists of around 40,000 personnel, from border control, aviation wings, civil servants, immigration services and riot control (Beweissicherungs and Festnahmeeinheit).
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  • A former traffic control kiosk from the cold war era and the modern German city, at the junction of Augsburgerstrasse and Kurfurstendamm in Berlin Mitte. The scene of a traffic controller sitting in the booth, possibly in the 1950s, seems incongruous compared to the modernity of today's city in the background. The word Verkehrskanzel is written at the top, explaining its original purpose as a traffic pulpit at traffic lights, used for manual traffic control by traffic police. Technical improvements to traffic control and congestion information, these kiosks were mostly dismantled in the late 1960s.
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  • Architecture and design of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
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  • A cigarette dispenser mounted to an apartment block wall in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin. The dirty wall and street pavement show a district in disrepair where immigration and a non-German population is high. Unlike in Britain, tobacco and cigarettes can be bought unregulated by anyone - even children - on the street. Brands such as Marlboro, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Cabinet can be chosen by pushing a selection button.
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  • A cash dispenser in a U-Bahn station of Seestrasse in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin. The German word Geldautomat (automatic money) is written above the dispenser that has bright red neon as part of its design. Euros can be obtained here using local cash cards as well as foreign credit by visitors.
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  • Bikes and pedestrians plus architecture and design of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
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  • Architecture and design of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
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  • The entrance to the U-Bahn station for one of the German government Bundestag buildings known as the Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
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  • Architecture and design of Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte, one of the government buildings of the German Bundestag. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag16-08-04-2013_1.jpg
  • The entrance to the U-Bahn station for one of the German government Bundestag buildings known as the Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag07-08-04-2013_1.jpg
  • The entrance to the U-Bahn station for one of the German government Bundestag buildings known as the Paul-Loeb-Haus in Berlin Mitte. Named after the last democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe House was occupied in July 2001. It houses 550 offices for MPs, 19 conference rooms, around 450 offices for parliamentary committees, the Bundestag information service for visitors, and a restaurant that is open to the public. A pedestrian subway connects Paul Löbe House with the Reichstag building. The eastern end of the ribbon of federal buildings extends across the River Spree in the form of a parliamentary office block divided into two parts.
    berlin_bundestag03-08-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the official coat of arms of the British monarch, on the exterior wall of the British Embassy, the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to Germany in Berlin. It is located on 70-71 Wilhelmstraße, near the Hotel Adlon. Upon reunification in 1991, an architectural competition was won by Michael Wilford and the new building opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 18 July 2000.
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  • A pedestrian pulling a suitcase walks past the exterior of the British Embassy, the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to Germany in Berlin. It is located on 70-71 Wilhelmstraße, near the Hotel Adlon. Upon reunification in 1991, an architectural competition was won by Michael Wilford and the new building opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 18 July 2000.
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  • A wide panorama of the exterior of the British Embassy, the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to Germany in Berlin. It is located on 70-71 Wilhelmstraße, near the Hotel Adlon. Upon reunification in 1991, an architectural competition was won by Michael Wilford and the new building opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 18 July 2000.
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  • Exterior of the German Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt) on Paul-Loeb-Allee, Berlin Mitte, a federal agency serving the executive office of the Chancellor, the head of the German federal government. The current Chancellery building (opened in the spring of 2001) was designed by Charlotte Frank and Axel Schultes and was built by a joint venture of Royal BAM Group's subsidiary Wayss & Freytag and the Spanish Acciona from concrete and glass in an essentially postmodern style, though some elements of modernist style are evident. Occupying 12,000 square meters (129,166 square feet), it is also one of the largest government headquarters buildings in the world. By comparison, the new Chancellery building is eight times the size of the White House.
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  • A locked bike in a rack next to dog faeces outside an apartment building in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin. The pink bicycle is locked to the red rack against a pink tiled wall, standing on cobbles in a more downmarket area, home to non-germans and immigrants.
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  • Actors in US and Soviet army uniforms hold flags to recount German history during the second world war and later, the cold war - beneath the Brandenburg Gate in Unter den Linden in central Berlin, Germany. The site is near the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Here also, Berlin was separated by the occupying sectors of US, British, French and Soviet forces after WW2. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.
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  • The portrait of a Soviet soldier sits high above modern Friedrishstrasse in modern Berlin at the location of  the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • A painted section of the old Berlin wall standing in a pedestrian precinct, near Checkpoint Charlie in central Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the Communist German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Taken six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a German lady from the old German Democratic Republic (DDR or GDR) looks back over her shoulder nostalgically at an abandoned Trabant car on a sunlit street in eastern Berlin, once in the eastern zone before the Communist-inspired Berlin Wall was breached in November 1989. Blocks of modern East German-designed flats line the street and a tram line can be seen in the middle of the highway. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
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  • A graffiti-covered doorway in the German city of Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Stuck to the once-grand doors and windows, are posters and bill stickers advertising local culture, music and art. Kreuzberg has emerged from its history as one of the poorest quarters in Berlin in the late 1970s, during which it was an isolated section of West Berlin[2] to one of Berlin's cultural centers in the middle of the now reunified city. It has one of the youngest populations of all European city boroughs, having long been the epicenter of 'Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer life and Arts' in Berlin.
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  • Visitors learning about the Berlin Wall read outdoor exhibition panels near the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • An outdoor exhibition panel near the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Displayed on a table at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, peaked caps of the former East German (DDR in German) border police are on sale in orderly rows for the sake of tourists to this German city. The border troops of the German Democratic Republic (Grenztruppen), were a military force of the GDR and the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany. The Border Troops numbered at their peak approximately 47,000 troops and other than the Soviet Union, no other Warsaw Pact country had such a large border guard force. In all, 1,065 persons were killed along the GDR's frontiers and coastline, often by the border guards. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • Young men re-enact the former border crossing between Communist East and West Germany during the Cold War at the site of the former Checkpoint Charlie, the border. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state the German Democratic Republic, the wreckage of a Trabant car still remains, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany.
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  • A West Berliner hammers a chisel to make a hole in the Berlin Wall. A trophy of divided oppressed times.
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state the German Democratic Republic, bent street signposts still remain, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany.
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  • East side outdoor gallery, the last remaining section of the Berlin wall, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
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  • East side outdoor gallery, the last remaining section of the Berlin wall, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
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  • The outer wall and watchtower on Genzlerstrasse of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members.Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy.
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  • Dramatic sky and light silhouettes the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. It is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin.
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  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • The watering cans of cemetery visitors which help water the graves of loved-ones are locked up on a rack in Domfriedhof cemetery in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin. This inner-city space is home to wildlife and is a haven to Berliners who may enjoy some peace among the graves of German society buried here and whose plots require constant attention.
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  • The Plenary Chamber in the centre of the old Reichstag building in central Berlin, Germany. The Bundestag is a legislative body in Germany. The new Reichstag building was officially opened on 19 April 1999. At least 598 Members of the Bundestag are elected and meet here.  The Reichstag is the seat of the political centre of Germany. The parliament holds its meetings at the plenary chamber underneath the amazing dome of glass and steel. The ramps which lead you elliptical to the top of the dome make a great visual impact. More than 800 tons weighs the cupola of the Reichstag. The building outlay amounts to a considerable sum of 600 million Deutsche Marks. The directive architect was Sir Norman Foster.
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  • Oberbaum bridge on the Elb river, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
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