Workers building a section of the wall on Bernauer Strasse in 1961 as police from West Berlin watched.Credit...Agence France-Presse
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Women talking across a barbed wire fence in August 1961.Credit...Patrice Habans/Paris Match, via Getty Images

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Children pretending to build a wall in West Berlin in 1962.Credit...Raymond Depardon/Magnum Photos
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A 19-year-old East German police officer, Conrad Schumann, left, just before he jumped into the West, right, on Aug. 15, 1961.
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A West Berlin child struggled with a sealed door that had become a part of the Berlin Wall.
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