Photo Special: Before And After The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was breached 20 years ago today. In the second of several picture galleries to mark the occasion, we compare Berlin today with the city divided by the wall.
Top: The Reichstag building and the Berlin Wall on November 10, 1989. Bottom: the same view 20 years later.
Top: Bernauer Strasse is separated by the Berlin Wall in June 1968. Bottom: The same view 40 years later.
Top: Tourists posing in front of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg gate on June 6, 1989.
Bottom: The Brandenburg Gate now.
Top: West Berlin citizens welcoming East Germans who passed the checkpoint at Invalidenstrasse on November 9, 1989, after the opening of the East German border was announced.
Bottom: Invalidenstrasse on July 21, 2009
Top: The former Allied Checkpoint Charlie during the Cold War in 1961. Bottom: The reopening of a replica of the guardhouse on August 13, 2000.
Top: East and West German citizens celebrating as they climb the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg gate on November 9, 1989.
Bottom: The same scene today
Top: East German border soldiers standing at the borderline at Zimmerstrasse/Charlottenstrasse, near the Allied checkpoint Charlie on March 10, 1990.
Bottom: the same scene today
Top: People posing at the Berlin Wall on Ebertstrasse at the Brandenburg Gate on June 6, 1989.
Bottom: Ebertstrasse and the Brandenburg Gate today.
Top: An East German border soldier looking at a man hammering a section of the Berlin Wall near the Allied checkpoint Charlie on June 2, 1990.
Bottom: People crossing the corner of Zimmerstrasse and Markgrafenstrasse today.
Top: People waving German flags on October 3, 1990 as they celebrate the country’s reunification.
Bottom the same view on October 20, 2009.
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