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Armed East German border guards at the newly closed border, 13 August 1961

The Border Guards of the Berlin Wall: Conscripts, the Order to Shoot, and the Trials That Followed

NVA border soldiers receiving their duty briefing

The Border Guards of the Berlin Wall: Conscripts, the Order to Shoot, and the Trials That Followed

Border soldiers and a watchtower beside a hole in the Berlin Wall, April 1990

The Border Guards of the Berlin Wall: Conscripts, the Order to Shoot, and the Trials That Followed

"Hands" in February 2011, twenty-one years on: the paint flaking to bare concrete, which is what a mural looks like when it has not been repainted. The signature reads "1990-2009".

East Side Gallery: The Last 1990 Original Is Being Conserved, and an Exiled Painting Has Come Home

Site plan of the winning design: one continuous light surface across both lots and the road, a large flat roof east of Friedrichstrasse, framed cut-outs marking historic traces, tree clusters on the western lot

Checkpoint Charlie's New Design Has Been Chosen, and the Guard House Stays

Rendering of the winning design for Checkpoint Charlie: a wide, pale, open square across Friedrichstrasse, a flat roof over a glass pavilion on the East Berlin side, a raised viewing platform with a staircase on the West Berlin side, and historical photographs on the firewalls

Checkpoint Charlie's New Design Has Been Chosen, and the Guard House Stays

One of the tape machines that recorded the Soviet army, of some 50,000 reels used

The Berlin Spy Tunnel: The CIA, MI6 and Operation Gold

A Soviet officer inside the tunnel after its discovery on 22 April 1956

The Berlin Spy Tunnel: The CIA, MI6 and Operation Gold

The steel door to the amplifier room, built for years of service rather than a quick raid

The Berlin Spy Tunnel: The CIA, MI6 and Operation Gold

Western correspondents walking through the tunnel after the Soviets opened it to visitors

The Berlin Spy Tunnel: The CIA, MI6 and Operation Gold

Sign reading Military Police Detachment Steinstücken outside a house in the West Berlin exclave, photographed in 1972

The Islands of West Berlin: Steinstücken, Eiskeller and the Exclaves Stranded in the East

Open meadow and woodland at the Eiskeller in Berlin-Spandau, seen from the Berlin Wall Trail

The Islands of West Berlin: Steinstücken, Eiskeller and the Exclaves Stranded in the East

The Parkbrücke over the Teltowkanal at Klein Glienicke, the village's only link to East Germany

The Islands of West Berlin: Steinstücken, Eiskeller and the Exclaves Stranded in the East

The painted outer wall at Bethaniendamm in Kreuzberg in 1986

East Side Gallery: Berlin Wall Murals & Visitor Guide

Thousands of demonstrators beside the East Side Gallery on 3 March 2013 protesting the removal of wall segments

East Side Gallery: Berlin Wall Murals & Visitor Guide

The East German rock band Karat performing on stage before a large crowd at the Berlin Waldbuehne

Music Behind the Wall: Rock, Punk and Wolf Biermann in East Germany

A young East German punk reclining beneath a GDR flag in a squatted East Berlin flat

Music Behind the Wall: Rock, Punk and Wolf Biermann in East Germany

A portrait of the East German singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann

Music Behind the Wall: Rock, Punk and Wolf Biermann in East Germany

Nikita Khrushchev with Walter Ulbricht and Otto Grotewohl at the V. SED Party Congress in Berlin, July 1958

Khrushchev's Berlin Ultimatum: The Crisis That Built the Wall

East German workers under guard building the Berlin Wall in August 1961

Khrushchev's Berlin Ultimatum: The Crisis That Built the Wall

Bono of U2 in his The Fly persona on the 1992 Zoo TV tour, in sunglasses and leather, singing into a microphone

The Berlin Wall in Music: Songs, Concerts and the Sound of a Divided City

The German singer Nena, whose 1983 hit 99 Luftballons came out of Cold War West Berlin, performing live

The Berlin Wall in Music: Songs, Concerts and the Sound of a Divided City

Klaus Meine of the Scorpions, who wrote Wind of Change, performing live

The Berlin Wall in Music: Songs, Concerts and the Sound of a Divided City

The West German rock singer Udo Lindenberg in his trademark hat, performing in 1987

The Berlin Wall in Music: Songs, Concerts and the Sound of a Divided City

Bruce Springsteen performing with a Telecaster guitar at the Radrennbahn Weissensee in East Berlin in July 1988

The Berlin Wall in Music: Songs, Concerts and the Sound of a Divided City

The Konzerthaus Berlin, the former Schauspielhaus on the Gendarmenmarkt

The Berlin Wall in Music: Songs, Concerts and the Sound of a Divided City

Roger Waters' The Wall - Live in Berlin staged at night on the former death strip near Potsdamer Platz in July 1990

The Berlin Wall in Music: Songs, Concerts and the Sound of a Divided City

Crowds standing on top of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate as the border opens in November 1989

The Berlin Wall in Music: Songs, Concerts and the Sound of a Divided City

A section of the Berlin Wall painted with bright cartoon figures by Thierry Noir and Christophe Bouchet in October 1985

The Berlin Wall in Art: Graffiti, Murals and the East Side Gallery

East Berlin construction workers during the uprising of 17 June 1953

The 1953 East German Uprising: June 17 and the Road to the Wall

The Columbushaus burning at Potsdamer Platz during the uprising, 17 June 1953

The 1953 East German Uprising: June 17 and the Road to the Wall

Soviet T-34 tank on Schuetzenstrasse in East Berlin during the June 17 uprising, 1953

The 1953 East German Uprising: June 17 and the Road to the Wall

The Platz des Volksaufstandes von 1953 memorial square at the Federal Ministry of Finance on Leipziger Strasse

The 1953 East German Uprising: June 17 and the Road to the Wall

David Bowie as the Thin White Duke in 1976

Bowie and Iggy Pop in West Berlin

The David Bowie memorial plaque at Hauptstraße 155 in Berlin-Schöneberg

Bowie and Iggy Pop in West Berlin

The Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, photographed in 1980

Bowie and Iggy Pop in West Berlin

Iggy Pop performing in 1977

Bowie and Iggy Pop in West Berlin

Der Entenschnabel ist ein Geländestreifen der Gemeinde Glienicke/ Nordbahn der westlich der Oranienb

Glienicke/Nordbahn Family Tunnel

Birgit Kinder's Trabant breaking through the wall

East Side Gallery