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In 1971, my parents and I visited East Berlin shortly after my 13th birthday. The adventure was on a whim, but the experience was a “life changer.” If my memories of the city were not s…

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Berlin Wall, 1986 (via here)

Magnum photographer Thomas Höpker has been photographing the city for decades... we've chosen some of his finest pictures

In the summer of 1969 when this photograph was taken, the Television Tower was almost complete. (It was opened on 3rd October). The dome of Berlin Cathdedral can be seen, as well as the spire of St Mary's Chruch and, in the middle distance, the House of the Teachers and its Congress Hall also built in the 1960's. The photograph was taken from the roof of the Interhotel Berolina (built 1961-3, demolished 1996).

DDR Pankow/East Berlin swimming pools during late 1960s. via Socialist Modernism

Konsum grocery store, corner of Karl-Marx-Allee and Strasse der Pariser Kommune. This store specialized in "Fruits and vegetables from the People's Republic of Poland". Scanned from an Ektachrome slide

Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin. There were also Checkpoints Alpha & Bravo which were controlled by the British.