A sign erected in East Berlin states that "You are leaving the American sector."

Montage Universal newsreel of the 1961 closure of the East German border by the Soviet Union and the refugees who fled to West Germany before the border closed.

The Berlin Wall opens to reunite East and West Berliners for short-term visits.

Defense Minister Krishna Menon resigns and East Germany communists commemorate the first anniversary of the Berlin Wall.

Workers strike the Berlin Wall with axes.

BERLIN, GERMANY: CU Sign: "YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR" (English, Russian, French & German) ZO American check point leading out/in West Berlin (border) (No indication this is Check Point Charlie to Russian sector, likely to British Sector)

BERLIN, GERMANY: CU pieces of The Wall displayed on portable table, military hats.

BERLIN, GERMANY: LS of graffiti covered wall, top of pink tank pointed upward w/ snow covered tires stacked, leaning nearby. (The East-side Gallery: The Wall & outdoor artwork )

A bicyclist rides along the Berlin Wall.

MOT 1963: THE BERLIN WALL: TU Barbed wire w/ metal pole extended up TD Stone Wall w/ steel pole attached to rock to small hole in Berlin Wall, ZI REVEALS barbed wire in front of cross tie barriers, aka "Death Zone." Cold War, Communism, "Wall of Shame"

Political delegations from East and West Germany meet and talk to the public because of a political battle between Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Mayor Willy Brandt over the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall comes down and Germans, East and West, celebrate with jubilation.

A man uses a sledge hammer on the Berlin Wall.

East Germans cross into West Germany.

A man uses a sledge hammer on the Berlin Wall.

A bulldozer pushes over a section of the Berlin Wall.

A crane dismantles a section of the Berlin Wall.

German citizens look at a dismantled section of the Berlin Wall.

East German border guards stand near the Berlin Wall, with huge holes showing its demolition by East Germans eager for the fall of Communism.

The Berlin Wall, covered with graffiti and awaiting demolition, wraps around Berlin's Reichstag.

East German citizens chip away at parts of the Berlin Wall.

Crowds continue to celebrate after the Berlin Wall falls.

Berlin residents and soldiers stand on the West Berlin side of the Berlin wall.

Soldiers surround a truck that crashed through the Brandenburg gate in a daring escape to West Berlin.

Men and women gather at the Berlin Wall prior to the destruction of it in 1989.