Archive photo of the day
Building the Berlin Wall, 1961
Stars and Stripes
October 17, 2022
(Gus Schuettler/Stars and Stripes)
Berlin, West Germany, Sept. 15, 1961: A West Berlin girl looks on as young, uniformed East Germans roll out barbed wire. Read the banter between the East and West Berliners as the barriers that would later become the Berlin Wall were erected here.