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Erich Honnecker, the former east-German puppet of the ex-Soviet Union was given the opportunity to retire in Chile until his death. Most of his subordinates were not punished.





Picture library
Lichtenrade
Wall Art
Checkpoint Bravo
East German Army
Standing at attention
Oberbaum Bruecke
Bridge
Wollankstrasse
Peter Anders Strasse
Soviet Parades
Air Patrol
Salute
Gesundbrunnen
The Russians are leaving
Quartier Napoleon
Buildings on the Wall
Invaliden Friedhof
Ugly Wall
Picture library
Wall Shootings I
Wall Shootings II
Successful Escapes
Better than James Bond
Border Guards
Deadly Wall

This is a page dedicated to the Berlin Wall which was probably the first attempt by man to build a prison the size of a country. I hope you will find this page interesting, I am still in the process of adding pictures.


Click here to see the pictures I took from the Berlin Wall.
Click here if this site is slow.


A lot of my links are in German, if you need the English translation,just copy the article or word and insert it in the online translator. The translations won't be pretty but you should understand the main points.



DDR Border guard Oath

Facts about the Wall


Peter Fechter, dead, is carried away
by East-German policemen.



"I would like to add something Comrades. When you start shooting, be sure you nail them..., because otherwise you've shot 70 rounds, the guy runs to the West and they start a huge campaign against us." Erich Mielke, Secretary of State Security, April 28 1989. Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes



Very interesting page from Richard Hebstreit who was a border guard in Grenzregiment 35 in 1966/1967.

AP photo
August 15, 1961, Bernauer Strasse konrad Schuman becomes the most
famous border guard to defect.
More AP photographs
page 1, page 2

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subway map





"There are some who say that Communism is the wave of the future.
Let them come to Berlin."
--President John F. Kennedy, Berlin, Germany, June 26, 1963

Stationed in West Berlin with the 46th infantry Regiment in 1990/1991 I spent many months trying to capture the aberration which would soon disappear for good. I followed all 96 miles of the Wall around West Berlin on foot so no detail would escape my camera


From 1961 until the mid-eighties, 1.6 million mines were laid on the Wall between east and west Germany. The last mines from the Wall were cleared in 1995.


An unidentified man is arrested as he was trying to run to the West through the Chausseestrasse checkpoint on April 10th 1989.
AP photo




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Berlin page from Krzysztof Mazurowski

Berliner Morgenpost





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