Germans are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell. We take a look at some of the pictures before the Iron Curtain came down in 1989.
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June 26, 1963: Then-US president John Kennedy stands on an observation platform as he looks into East Berlin across the Berlin Wall, which divided the German city. AP Photo -
1980: A woman looks at the Berlin Wall along the Spree river in central Berlin. In the background the Charite Hospital is under construction. Elke Bruhn Hoffmann / AP Photo -
August 13, 1962: West Berliners wave to relatives in East Berlin one year after the Berlin Wall was erected at the city’s Bernauer Strasse. Werner Kreusch/ AP Photo -
February 27, 1969: Then-US president Richard Nixon looks across the communist wall into East Germany, from West Berlin during his stay in the divided city. German chancellor Kurt Kiesinger is seen behind Nixon. AP Photo -
1968: Children play at the Berlin Wall at divided Sebastianstrasse near Heinrich-Heine-Strasse. AP Photo -
June 26, 1963: Then-US president John F Kennedy walks past a cordon of saluting servicemen and the sentry post near the Wall in West Berlin. Escorting the president is Brigadiere General Frederick O Hartell, right, commander of the US brigade in Berlin. AP Photo -
March 12, 1971: The Berlin Wall checkpoint at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse. Edwin Reichert /AP Photo -
September 9, 1961: East German policemen work to remove barbed wire from a brick wall while others in the background raise the wall at the border between the French and Russian sector at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. Edwin Reichert /AP Photo -
November 19, 1961: A view from the top of the old Reichstag’s building of the Brandenburg Gate, which marks the border in this divided city. E Worth/AP Photo
Before the Berlin Wall came down - in pictures
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