Berlin Wall 50th Anniversary Nears

BERLIN, GERMANY – AUGUST 10: A visitor photographs a part of a still-existing section of the Berlin Wall, so called ‘East Side Gallery’, where East German border guards once had the order to shoot anyone attempting to flee into West Berlin on August 10, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The city of Berlin will mark the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Wall on August 13. The Berlin Wall was originally built in 1961 by the communist authorities of East Germany in order to stop East Germans from fleeing west, and up to an estimated 245 people died trying to do so until the Wall came down in 1989. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

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