Berlin Wall (Antifascistischer Schutzwall) Gallery

Lichtgrenze project lightening Berlin Wall

A row of lanterns installed on the river Spree bank, on the course of the former Berlin wall border near the German parliament in Berlin on November 5, 2014. Highlighting Berlin's long and painful division, 8,000 illuminated balloons will light from November 7 until November 9, 2014 15-kilometre of the route of the old border between East ( GDR) and West Germany in Berlin to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

Actual entrance to the American sector in Berlin

This is the entry point to the american sector, today is a mayor tourist atraction and is on the border to the american sector of Berlin.
West Berlin was a free city and political enclave surrounded by East Berlin and East Germany that existed between 1949 and 1990. It was located some 100 miles east of the East/West German border and was accessible by land from West Germany only by a narrow rail and highway corridor. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945. It was politically closely affiliated with, though not part of, West Germany. It had a special and unique legal status because its administration was formally conducted by the Western Allies. East Berlin consisted of the region occupied and administered by the Soviet Union, and was claimed as its capital by East Germany. The Western Allies did not recognise this claim, as they asserted that the entire city of Berlin was legally under four-power administration. The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, physically divided East and West Berlin until it fell in 1989.
With about two million inhabitants, West Berlin had the highest number of residents of any city in Cold War-era Germany

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Walking the Berlin Wall

The former course of the Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer), which split West and East Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in the city's Zimmerstrasse. Its total length was 96 miles, of which 27 miles ran roughly north-south, cleaving the city in two, while another 69 miles isolated the enclave of West Berlin from the surrounding East German (DDR) state. Although about 5000 people managed to escape over it during the time it stood, at least 136 also died while trying to cross it. Taken in Berlin, Germany