When East Germany announced on November 9, 1989 that Easterners could now visit the West, it led to celebrations on both sides of the Berlin Wall, as people chipped away parts of the grim structure
After World War II, Germany was defeated and Allied forces entered the country. As divisions between the allies became unrepairable, the country was divided amongst the US, the UK, France and Soviet Union. Even though Berlin, the capital, was in the Soviet zone, it too was also divided into four sectors.
An East German couple is turned away from the border, blocked by East German soldiers and barbed wire, after trying to cross into West Berlin, Aug. 13, 1961. To stem the flow of refugees to the West, East Germany closed the border to all citizens and residents, except those with a special police permit.
In this file photo from December 4, 1961, formidable concrete walls take shape under the toiling hands of workers from communist East Germany at the seven crossing points between East and West Berlin. The new walls were some seven-foot high and five-foot thick. In center of the Bornholmer Bridge behind steel tank traps a big sign showing the East German emblem hammer and compass.
Joseph Werner of the US stands at Berlin Checkpoint Charlie to hand out black flags to protest the Berlin Wall in a lonely demonstration in Berlin, Aug. 13, 1989, mere months before the wall would be torn down.
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