inkscar:

Residents of West Berlin, right, watch East German construction workers erect a wall across Wildenbruchstrasse and Heidelbergerstrasse in August 1961. Built with barbed wire and concrete, the wall stretched for 31 miles, separated East and West Berlin as a cold war divide, preventing East Germans from crossing to the west.
(via Berlin wall 50th anniversary - in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk)

inkscar:

Residents of West Berlin, right, watch East German construction workers erect a wall across Wildenbruchstrasse and Heidelbergerstrasse in August 1961. Built with barbed wire and concrete, the wall stretched for 31 miles, separated East and West Berlin as a cold war divide, preventing East Germans from crossing to the west.

(via Berlin wall 50th anniversary - in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk)