Berlin - East from Siegessäule (1963 - Detail)

            A detail view from the Siegessäule (victory column) in Berlin.  I am looking east on Strasse des 17. June (June 17 Street, named for the failed uprising against the Russian (Soviet) occupiers on June 17, 1953.  The Brandenburg Gate is in the background.  It formed part of the Berlin Wall at the time.  

This was 1963.  East Berlin, which included the city center, had no "skyline."  The Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom - Lutheran) and Rathaus (city hall), both in East Berlin, are the most visible landmarks.  The Television Tower (1969) and International Trade Center (1976) had not been built.  

I took this photo from the top of the base of the Siegessäule.  My blue Volkswagen, which I drove around Europe that summer, is in the lower right corner.  Two minicars are coming in this direction.  Their numbers declined with growing German prosperity.

This photo shows more than I could actually see from the Siegessäule, even the barriers around the Brandenburg Gate.  The towers of the Reichstag are at left.  Most of this identification is in retrospect.  I had been in Berlin less than 24 hours, and did not know what I saw, particularly in East Berlin.

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Taken in: Deutschland / Bundesland Berlin / Berlin / Moabit (show map)

Taken on: August 16, 1963

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Sets appears in: • Germany and Berlin - 1963

Groups appears in: • Berlin Wall • Rathaus - Cityhall - Hôtel de Ville - Prefeitura - Stadhuis more » • Experience History: Berlin 1961-1989 « less

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