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The Communist Justification for the Division of Berlin (August 14, 1961)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

GDR Council of Ministers’ Decision to Seal the Border (August 12, 1961)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Building the Wall: Residents Watch the Construction from the Western Side of Bernauer Strasse (August 1961)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Willy Brandt Watches the Construction of the Wall Near the Brandenburg Gate (August 13, 1961)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

The West German Government’s Condemnation of the Wall (August 18, 1961)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Report on One of the First Deaths at the Zonal Border (August 30, 1961)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

East Berliners Flee to the West (September 16, 1961)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

The Border along Berlin’s Spree River (no date)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Peter Fechter at the Berlin Wall (August 17, 1962)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

GDR Order to Fire on Would-be Escapees (c. 1962)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Border at Hirschberg an der Saale (1964)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Patrolling the Inner-German Border (1971)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Border in Thuringia (1971)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Sketch of an East German Border Fortification (1984)

in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

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