The mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall

The mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall berlin wall Fall of the Berlin Wall · In an early photograph by Leonard Freed, American and Soviet soldiers face off at Checkpoint Charlie at the point berlin68 The Wall The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border

berlin68 Before dawn on 13 August 1961, construction began on a wall that would divide Berlin in two and come to symbolise the Cold War for the next 28 years

berlin 777 The Berlin Wall, the former border fortification of the GDR, stood between 1961 and 1989 and separated the western part of the city from the eastern part  When the Wall went up: Britain and the Berlin Crisis, 1961 Sixty years ago simmering Cold-War tensions were dramatically brought to a head in