Forbidden Places - Invalidenstraße
Posted on November 2, 2009
Until the 9th November, I will been posting a selection of photos of Forbidden Places - locations that up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, were not accessible to the ‘ordinary person on the street’.
The border of the Boroughs of Tiergarten and Mitte was also the boundary of the British and Soviet sectors of Berlin set up in July 1945.
Looking from West to East in October 2009.
A 1965 view, similar to the one above.
A line has been etched out of the road surface and bridge abutment, as a reminder of the border.
Seen here on the south side of the bridge.
The scene here on November 10th 1989
A memorial to Günter Litfin, which was dedicated on the first anniversary of his death. Litfin, who was shot dead in the river here on 24 August 1961, was the first known person to be killed trying to cross from East to West after the wall was built.
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