Berlin During The Cold War: Then And Now

(FILE PHOTO) In this composite image a comparison has been made between Berlin in the 1960s (BOTTOM) and Berlin now in 2014. ***TOP IMAGE*** BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 25: In the colour photo above a young couple cross the street near the Berlin Wall memorial (R) at Bernauer Strasse on February 25, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. In the black and white photo people in West Berlin look at the newly-erected Berlin Wall at the same location sometime in 1961 or 1962. (Photo by Imagno/Hulton Archive via Getty Images) The city of Berlin will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this year. The Wall, built by the communist authorities of East Berlin, divided the city between 1961 and 1989 and became the iconic symbol on the Cold War. East Germany was under communist and Soviet control from its founding as the German Democratic Republic (DDR) in 1949 and ceased to exist following German reunification in 1990. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) ***BOTTOM IMAGE*** GERMANY - JANUARY 01: People from West Berlin looking to East Berlin at Bernauer Strasse. Photography. Germany. 1961/62. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Westberliner schauen an der Bernauer Strasse ueber die Berliner Mauer nach Ost Berlin. Photographie. Deutschland. 1961/62.]