Picture Galleries - The Telegraph
Crowds at the Brandenburg Gate bear witness to the Fall of the Berlin Wall Picture: GETTY
The Berlin Wall was breached 20 years ago on November 9, 1989. In the third 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 |
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Top: Bernauer Strasse is separated by the Berlin Wall in June 1968. Bottom: The same view 20 years later
Picture: AFP/GETTY
Top: Tourists posing in front of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg gate on June 6, 1989. Bottom: The Brandenburg Gate today Picture: REUTERS
Top: People posing at the Berlin Wall on Ebertstrasse at the
Brandenburg Gate on June 6, 1989. Bottom: Ebertstrasse and the
Brandenburg Gate today Picture: REUTERS
Top: Checkpoint Charlie crossing point, in June 1968, then marking
the border between East (Soviet sector) and West Berlin (American
sector). Bottom: The same view today Picture: AFP/GETTY
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 Picture: REUTERS
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 Picture: REUTERS
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 Picture: REUTERS
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 Picture: REUTERS
Top: West Berliners welcoming East Berlin citizens who have crossed
the border at the Allied checkpoint Charlie on November 9, 1989. Bottom:
The same scene today Picture: REUTERS
Top: West Berlin citizens continuing their vigil atop the Berlin Wall
in front of the Brandenburg Gate on November 10, 1989. Bottom: Cars
drive through the gate ten years later Picture: REUTERS
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 Picture: REUTERS
Top: West Berlin citizens welcoming East Germans who passed the
Berlin Wall border checkpoint Invalidenstrasse in an East German Trabant
car, on November 9, 1989. Bottom: Cars driving along Invalidenstrasse
today Picture: REUTERS
Top: People waving German flags on October 3, 1990 as they celebrate
the country's reunification. Bottom the same view on October 20, 2009 Picture: AFP/GETTY
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