Physically separate from the more famous Berlin Wall, the Inner German border was nearly 1,400km long and divided East and West Germany from 1949, when the Soviets established East Germany ...

Families were torn apart. Buildings and entire communities were demolished to make way for the inner-German border. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, heralding in a new era in the country's history.

The wall across Berlin was an ideological and physical barrier — and often a deadly one. A guarded inner border that split Germany into two parts had been in place since the end of World War II.

Soldiers once patrolled the border between East and West Germany, sealed 50 years ago. The inner border was more than 1,400 kilometers long, and many people lived within sight of the wall.

Dorgerloh said he believes that while the Berlin Wall still symbolizes the division of Germany, it is now time to shift the spotlight to the inner-German border, which was "hermetically sealed ...

grew up close to the border in town of Barum, which was then in the West German state of Lower Saxony. He began photographing the length of the wall in 1982, working from north to south ...

Photo: picture alliance / dpa | Mauritz Antin The inner German border separated East and West ... with the Berlin Wall slicing the city in half. READ ALSO: 33 years on - Are east and west ...

While the wall cut off passage into West Berlin, the inner-German border remained vulnerable, leading to the construction of a second, less famous wall in Mödlareuth in 1966. (AP) Perspective by ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Frobel suggested turning the inner-German border into a 1,400km-long (870 miles) “green belt”. Germany reunified in 1990, making this possible.

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

Physically separate from the more famous Berlin Wall, the Inner German border was nearly 1,400km long and divided East and West Germany from 1949, when the Soviets established East Germany ...