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Picture of a German mason putting mortar in the Berlin Wall in 1961
August 13, 2021
Building the Wall
In this picture from the December 1961 issue, workers in West Germany build the Berlin Wall. The wall would prevent people in East Germany from emigrating to West Germany and the rest of Western Europe—until protests resulted in the fall of the wall in 1989.
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