Eventually the Berlin Wall resembled a military fence or a prison wall. Barbed wire and barriers will built on top of the wall so that noone could escape over it.
Guards were posted along the Berlin Wall and told to stop people by any means from escaping from East Germany to West Germany. Not everyone wanted to be there. This picture is of the soldier who leaped over the Berlin Wall and became an icon of the Cold War
People trying to communicate over the wall. Maybe with family.
This view over the Berlin Wall shows how militarised the guarding of the wall had become.
After WWII tension began to build up between the superpowers. This map shows the physical and ideological divides.
This man has just escaped over the Berlin Wall and is running away so that he won't be caught. Here the wall is not yet fortified.
To stop people from escaping through windows, they were bricked up.