The Berlin Wall: A Pictorial History

A defecting East German soldier, Conrad Schuman, leaps over a barbed wire barricade into West Berlin on August 15, 1961. Schuman made his break for freedom to join his family, who had fled earlier to West Berlin. The barbed wire barricade would soon evolve into a concrete wall, and eventually an elaborate series of walls and fences

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