An East German guard tosses a ball back to a West
German child in 1962. Within years, East German guards would become
notoriously less friendly, once infamously leaving at least one
would-be escapee to bleed to death in plain sight in the Wall's
sinister No Man's Land after they'd shot him. At least 125 people were
shot to death trying to escape over or though the Berlin Wall; several
thousand more were successful.
Photo: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures/
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