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Escape to The West

A photograph as a icon and symbol

"Escape to the West"

  • distributed worldwide by the AP
  • Won the Overseas Press Club “Best Photograph Award” in 1961
  • Taken by Peter Leibing (Photographer of Contipress in Hamburg)

The Berlin Wall

  • May 1945 - Red Army captures Berlin
  • 1949 -Federal Republic of Germany & The German Democratic Republic founded
  • 1952 - Visitation regulations & border control
  • August 13,1961 - Border between East & West Berlin is closed and barbed wire erected
  • August 15, 1961 - building of the brick Berlin Wall begins
  • October 1, 1973 - Stasi agents placed on border
  • 1989 - East German government resigns

Peter Leibing's

Escape to the West

Symbols

The Cold War

  • Berlin & The Berlin Wall
  • symbol of the division worldwide
  • "The Iron Curtain"
  • The Wall = communism
  • The Cold War

The Photograph

  • freedom
  • popularity of photograph
  • Tensions between the US and their allies (NATO & Western Bloc) against USSR and their allies (Warsaw Pact & Eastern Bloc)
  • Dated 1947-1991 officially, though tensions eased up in the late 1980's
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