Berlin 2009 Gunter Litfin shot escape 1989 DDR Germany Unified positive forward history War Cold War end East West Divide city

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Berlin 2009. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall which I photographed in 1989 for the Independent Newspaper I returned to photograph the changes that have happened over the past 20 years. The site where Gunter Litfin,24, the first East German to be shot by east german border guards on 13 August 1961 while trying to escape to the west. see image showing escape. 2009

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