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In photos: The Berlin Wall, before and after

By Leslie Young Global News
Posted November 9, 2014 9:00 am
1 min read
People dance on top of the Berlin Wall View image in full screen
Thousands of young East Berliners crowd atop the Berlin Wall, near the Brandenburg Gate (background) on November 11, 1989. Two days before, Gunter Schabowski, the East Berlin Communist party boss, declared that starting from midnight, East Germans would be free to leave the country, without permission, at any point along the border, including the crossing-points through the Wall in Berlin. GERARD MALIE/AFP/Getty Images
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The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago on November 9, 1989. Now, there are few traces of the Wall left in the city.

So few, in fact, that I was shocked to find out that the Wall once ran over a bridge in Berlin, where I danced until dawn last summer in a nightclub below, then walked home along the bridge.

Oberbaumbrücke in 1976

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Picture taken on October 13, 1976 of a watchtower on the bridge Oberbaumbruecke on the Spree river, marking the border between East (Soviet sector) and West Berlin (American sector). Ralph Gatti / Getty Images

Photo of dawn at the Oberbaumbrücke

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Dawn at the Oberbaumbrücke in Berlin. Leslie Young / Global News

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Below are some other photos which show what the Wall looked like when the city was still divided, and what it looks like now.

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The Brandenburg Gate in 1984

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Tourists visit the West side of Berlin and the Berlin Wall, near the Brandenburg gate on April 29, 1984. Joel Robine / Getty Images

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Potsdamer Platz in 1961

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Picture taken in 1961 in Potsdamer Platz of the Berlin wall built by the East German government to seal off East Berlin from the part of the city occupied by the three main western powers (USA, Great Britain and France), and to prevent mass illegal emigration to the West. AFP / Getty Images

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Checkpoint Charlie in 1976

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Picture taken on October 13, 1976 of the Heinrich Heine Strasse checkpoint between East (Soviet sector) and West Berlin (American sector). Ralph Gatti / AFP / Getty Images

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