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Honor in East Germany

    Color photo of a section of the Berlin Wall in the winter of 1986. This image shows the colorful murals of the outer wall, painted by West Germans on their side of the border. The infamous Death Strip appears below and beyond the outer wall. The Death Strip meets an interior wall that provides a barrier to potential fugitives. Bleak, gray, shuttered apartment buildings hover over the interior wall.

    From 1961–1989, this remnant wall and strip of once-patrolled land represents a section of the border that existed between East and West Berlin from 1961–1989. East Berlin belonged to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a Soviet Union satellite. On Paul Robeson’s 70th birthday, April 9, 1968, the GDR established a Paul Robeson Archive.

    1986
    Copyright
    CC BY-SA 3.0; author’s color enhancement for WPCH
    Attribution/Credit

    Thierry Noir, via “Berlin Wall,” Wikipedia