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At Potsdamer Platz 1986. A Zündapp KS50 Brommer parked foreground. M-Bahn, Weinhaus Huth and the Berlin Wall in the background.
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Potsdamer Platz August 1986. Köthenerstrasse visible beyond the monorail line (M-Bahn). All the buildings seen here are in West Berlin.
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Berlin Bernauer Strasse 1986. The Berlin Wall crosses over the junction with Ruppiner Strasse.
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West Berlin Lichtenrade S-Bahnhof 1986. The Line 2 S-Bahn train approaching the platform of what was then the southern terminus of the service. The northern terminus Frohnau is showing on the destination board on the front of the train.
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West Berlin 1986. At this date, Lichtenrade was the southern terminus of S-Bahn line 2 within West Berlin. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the line through to Mahlow and Blankenfelde has been restored.
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A section of ‘Third Phase’ Berlin Wall, made from horizontal slabs of concrete topped by an anti-grapple pipe, surrounding the Lichtenrade district, with a watchtower in the empty fields beyond. Picture taken 1986.
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Berlin 1988. Three DDR grenzpolizei vehicles in the death zone of the Berlin Wall near Treptower Strasse. From left, a Trabant 601 field car, a standard DDR army motorbike, and an IFA W50-LA truck.
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Berlin 1986. The corner of Sebastianstrasse and Prinzenstrasse.
A previous posting of this image had the following caption:
Crossing point between East and West Berlin in June 1986. My ‘Falkplan’ map from this time marks up this border control point as: ”Übergang Prinzenstr. (H-Heine-Str.) f. Bundesbürger” This means it is to be used by West German citizens only. West Berliners did not count as West German citizens.
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“Twilight Zone” and Sylvia Plath: read research fellow Erik Mortenson’s Q&A about his book about shadow imagery in the Cold War. https://budurl.me/s5yvb
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“Who?” was a Cold War spy-thriller update of the plot of the “Man in the Iron Mask.” The studio held on to it for 5 years.
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One of its crew pre-flight checks an Avro Shackleton MR.2 of of No 37 Squadron in the Air Forces Middle East based at RAF Khormaksar, Aden before an operation over the Radfan region of the Federation of Southern Arabia (now Yemen).
RAF Shackleton MR. Mk. 3, No.WR 970, in flight over cloud. (Port, three-quarter front view, from above).
Note that WR 970, the prototype Mk.3, was first flown on 2 September 1955; it was subsequently lost in a crash in the Peak District (Foolow, Derbyshire) during operational tests on 7 December 1956. All on board were killed
August 1961
Flying the Soviet flag, the nuclear icebreaker Lenin plows north, trailed by the icebreaker Yermak.Borne by such vessels and by aircraft, the Soviets probed the Arctic Ocean for decades, seeking military advantage in the Cold War and amassing vast stores of environmental data. Information derived from this archive is now being made public, along with rare photographs of the Russian scientists at work, National Geographic, February 1997
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