1 month ago • 23 notesThe Guardian | The fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years on
1961: Defecting East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann leaps over a barbed wire barricade at the Bernauer Street sector into West Berlin on 15 August. Schumann made his break for freedom to join his family, who had earlier fled to the west. Photograph: Peter Leibing/ Contipress/AP