It’s hard to believe that the infamous Berlin Wall fell 22 years ago. I still remember that time, etched in my memory forever, as I saw the news feed coming in “Live” from East Berlin. The triumph and jubilation of the topple of communism was electrifying. It definitely made top headline of the decade! However, few people can remember when the Wall was first built nor the first few years that led to the building of the Wall.
Time searched through their archives and brings us this very poignant display of how life was before and during the rise of the Berlin Wall. These photos by Don McCullin shows us his perspective inside the Berlin Wall. These photos were never published until today.
“It could almost have been as if I had wandered into Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin. I met up with the correspondent but we didn’t work together. In the evenings we’d meet and I’d tell him what I’d photographed. I went straight down to Friedrichstrasse and started working with my Rolleicord of course, I was sitting on the biggest story in the world. I saw the East Germans drilling the foundations and building the Wall breeze block by breeze block.”
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