Divided city
Berlin, Germany, September, 1961; Gus Schuettler, ©Stars and Stripes

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A Vopo, as the East German police were known, stands guard as West Berliners watch a worker add to the wall dividing the city's eastern and western portions. The construction was apparently undertaken to minimize contact between residents of the cities whose division had been made clear by the advent of the Wall the previous month.