Stock Photo - A heavy Patton tank and soldiers of the US Army on the West Berlin side and the People's Police of the GDR with a water gun standing on the East Berlin side, at checkpoint Friedrichstraße in Berlin on 24th August 1961. A heavy Patton tank of the US Army standing on Wilhelmstraße in West Berlin at the border to the eastern part of the city, on 23rd August 1961. In the background the Berlin Wall and the 'Haus der Ministerien' (house of ministries), the former Reich aeronautic ministry, at the corner of Wilhelm and Leipziger Straße. From 13th August 1961, the day of the building of the wall, until the fall of Berlin Wall on 9th November 1989 the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR were split by the 'iron curtain' between west and east. - Berlin/Berlin/Germany