LIFE: Early days of the Berlin Wall
On the anniversary of Germany's reunification in 1990, LIFE.com offers a gallery of powerful pictures -- most of which never ran in LIFE -- of the Berlin Wall in its earliest days: a glimpse of an era that today feels at once profoundly alien, and disturbingly familiar.
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- Mon, 13 Aug, 2012
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