Sections of the Berlin wall, which divided the city between communist East and capitalist West can still be seen today, with significant sections a longer Bernauer Strasse including a preserved watch tower and “strip of death” and the famous murals which can be seen along the so-called “East side Gallery” near the river Spree close to the Ostbahnhof.
Woman with a bicycle walks past the preserved watchtower on Bernauer Strasse.
The mined area between the inner and outer walls, Bernauer Strasse.
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker embrace in 1979. Captions in Russian and German read “My God, help me to survive this deadly love”.
The famous sign at Checkpoint Charlie, the exit from the American controlled zone into the Soviet area of occupation.
