East German police and soldiers sealed the most frequently used border crossings between East and West Berlin with barbed wire. Soviet troops began to replace the wire with a concrete wall.

This is the Berliner Mauerweg or Berlin ... the wall’s eastern and western barriers. This strip was once a grim gauntlet for ...

A stretch of the Berlin Wall, 1962. The wall was topped with barbed wire to prevent East Berliners from escaping While most of the Berlin Wall anniversary coverage has focused on the day the wall ...

On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War. Most were ...

Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now 1,800km ... which witnessed 1.8m migrants flee to Europe. The barbed wire and steel column fence, which spans Hungary's border ...