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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(THE BERLIN WALL--EAST & WEST GERMANY) A group of 50 press photographs, with 20 relating to the Berlin Wall and 30 depicting daily life in East and West Germany. Includes images of Communist soldiers maintaining the border; many daring escapes, including Conrad Schumann's "leap to freedom;" family members landing into West Germany via long rope from apartment windows; relatives conversing over the wall; and 30 prints showing the grim realities of daily life in Berlin in the post-World War II period. Ferrotyped silver prints and wirephoto prints, the images measuring 6 1/4x8 3/4 to 7 1/4x9 1/4 inches (15.9x22.2 to 19.7x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, each with trimmed newspaper clippings, handwritten captions or engraver's notations, and hand stamps and/or slugs, on verso. Circa 1948-61
After WWII, Berlin was divided into three sectors controlled by the U.S., France, and the Soviet Union. As a result of growing numbers of East German defectors fleeing the Communist-controlled zone, the Soviets introduced barbed wire fences as a barrier which, over time, transitioned to a continuous concrete barrier known as the Berlin Wall.
