(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 - MARCH 20: In the colour photo above visitors walk next to a still-standing portion of the former Berlin Wall at the Topographies des Terrors memorial on March 20, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. In the black and white photo a sign reads: "Whoever Attacks Us Will Be Destroyed" next to East German soldiers and workers next to the Berlin Wall at the same location sometime in 1962. (Photo by Unidentified Author/Defot Echtes/Alinari 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 - CIRCA 1962: The Berlin Wall in the neighborhood of Wilhelmstrasse, with military vehicles, workers, and uniformed persons. - Date of Photo: 1962 ca. (Photo by Unidentified Author/Defot Echtes/Alinari via Getty Images)
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