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Due to the closure of the East-West border in Berlin a large number of East Germans could no longer travel or emigrate to West Germany. Many families were divided, the inhabitants of East Berlin, who worked in the Western part, were cut off from their work places, and residents of West Berlin were isolated in a hostile land. Two girls in the street talking to West Germany with his grandparents in a box at home in the eastern zone, separated by a barricade of barbed wire on August 14, 1961. (Keystone, Getty Images)
