Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYDangerous playground, 1961
Stars and Stripes
January 10, 2017
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and StripesWest Berlin, September, 1961: An East German "Vopo" (short for Volkspolizei) goes about his business manning a vehicle barrier near the Berlin Wall as a young local boy — seemingly unfazed by the extra tension in the area since the construction of the Wall the previous month — rides a scooter.