East German soldiers putting up barbed wire on wooden posts in order to close off a street in preparation for building the Berlin wall. These barbed wire fences were built on November 14th, 1961, and the first concrete structures were built three days later on November 17th, 1961.

Citation: Zürn, Michael. “Fall of the Berlin Wall: Globalization and the Future of Europe.” New Zealand International Review, vol. 35, no. 3, May 2010, pp. 2–7. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=50503540&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Image Citation: Keystone. East Berlin Closed Off [Photograph found in Hulton Archive]. Retrieved from https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/soldiers-of-the-east-germa... (Originally photographed 1961, August 14)