Gallery: Berlin Wall 1989

Updated: 11:54, Monday, 9 November 2009

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the outstanding event in the wave of changes which swept Eastern Europe in 1989, and which triggered the collapse of Communism and the ending of the Cold War.

  • The Berlin Wall and The Brandenburg Gate, West Germany May 1989
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    The Berlin Wall and The Brandenburg Gate, West Germany May 1989

  • East and West Germany reunite with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall opening all the country's borders. East and West Germans Nov 1989
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    East and West Germany reunite with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall opening all the country's borders. East and West Germans Nov 1989

  • People sit on the Wall to celebrate the end of segregation on 9 November 1989
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    People sit on the Wall to celebrate the end of segregation on 9 November 1989

  • Hundreds of rejoicing Berliners help each other get to either side of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, the border separating East and West Germany was officially opened causing the 'fall of the Berlin Wall' and symoblising the end of the 'Cold War'
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    Hundreds of rejoicing Berliners help each other get to either side of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, the border separating East and West Germany was officially opened causing the 'fall of the Berlin Wall' and symoblising the end of the 'Cold War'

  • People standing on top of the Berlin Wall 9 Nov 1989
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    People standing on top of the Berlin Wall 9 Nov 1989

  • An East German border guard offers a flower through a gap in the Berlin Wall. 10 Nov 1989
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    An East German border guard offers a flower through a gap in the Berlin Wall. 10 Nov 1989

  • An East German border guard looks through a hole in the wall towards West Berlin. 14 Nov 1989
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    An East German border guard looks through a hole in the wall towards West Berlin. 14 Nov 1989

  • A woman tries to break a hole in the wall at the site of today's Potsdamer Platz, West Berlin 15 Nov 1989
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    A woman tries to break a hole in the wall at the site of today's Potsdamer Platz, West Berlin 15 Nov 1989

  • A young boy looks through a hole in the wall towards East Berlin. 14 Nov 1989
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    A young boy looks through a hole in the wall towards East Berlin. 14 Nov 1989

  • The Berlin Wall running along Niederkirchner Strasse. West Berlin, Germany 25 Nov 1989
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    The Berlin Wall running along Niederkirchner Strasse. West Berlin, Germany 25 Nov 1989

  • Graffiti depicting a kiss between East German leader Erich Honecker and his Soviet counterpart Leonid Brezhnev
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    Graffiti depicting a kiss between East German leader Erich Honecker and his Soviet counterpart Leonid Brezhnev

  • A remaining section of the Berlin Wall
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    A remaining section of the Berlin Wall

  • A plaque marks the site where the wall once ran through central Berlin
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    A plaque marks the site where the wall once ran through central Berlin

  • A woman cycles across the former site of the Berlin Wall
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    A woman cycles across the former site of the Berlin Wall