Berlin Wall in Google Street View
Berlin’s modern face – glass skyscrapers, busy roads, overgrown lots – shows little trace of its old scar. Our Street View expert takes us back to Checkpoint Charlie, the death strip ... and the wall’s glorious fall, 25 years ago this coming 9 November
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23 August 1961: American troops and tanks occupy the border sector at Friedrichstrasse
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August 1961: Military water trucks with high-pressure hoses are lined up by the Brandenburg Gate
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4 December 1961: Friedrichstrasse crossing point, which became known as Checkpoint Charlie. American soldiers watch as construction workers, heavily guarded by East German security forces, build a massive stone barricade
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Checkpoint Charlie
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1961: A child is passed over barbed wire while guards look the other way
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1961: The second photograph in this set
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1961: The third and final image
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1961: Tanks in front of the train station in Friedrichstrasse
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An East German sign urges the west to accept a Soviet peace proposal for addressing the division of Germany
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1963: The wall along Bernauer Street blocks the entrance to a church in East Berlin
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1963: In East Berlin looking north into Potsdamer Platz
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1963: Another view looking north east into Potsdamer Platz
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1963: Bernaur Strasse. Buildings bricked up and vacated for demolition along this notorious stretch of the wall where many border jumps took place
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April 1963: Apartments are closed off by cement blocks in Heinrich-Heinestrasse at the corner of Sebastianstrasse
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Sidewalks in the Western Sector are walled near Harzerstrasse
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Bernauer Strasse at the Church of Reconciliation
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1985: The Invalidenstrasse crossing point
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9 November 1989: Thousands of east and west Berliners gather at the Brandenburg gate to celebrate the fall of the wall
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