Panel photograph illustrating the 1989 border strip,at the Berlin Wall, Bernauer Strasse, between Ackerstrasse and Gartenstrasse
This photograph, entitled 'The Border Strip between Gartenstrasse and Ackerstrasse April 1989', is part of an information panel which reads: 'The SED leadership has the previous border wall rebuilt around 1980. Trying to gain international recognition, the SED no longer wanted the East German capital's public image to be dominated by the menacing border fortifications with their metal gratings, bunkers and vehicle obstacles. These kinds of barriers were removed from the border strip beginning in 1983. Fugitives trying to escape in 1989 first had to get over the inner wall that sealed off the border strip on the GDR side. Then they had to climb a signal fence that, when touched, activated an alarm in the watch towers, where the border soldiers were stationed. Having passed the patrol road and a strip created to secure tracks, fugitives had to get over the final barrier - the nearly 12 foot high border wall - before reaching the West.' The photograph marks out the Inner Wall, Signal Fence, Patrol Road, Border Lamps, Border Wall, Watch Tower. between Ackerstrasse and Gartenstrasse.
Size: 4852px × 3648px
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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