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Tension In Berlin
Central Press1962-08-20
Getty Images
New York, United States
West German police arrest a young man, one of the angry crowd throwing stones at a bus full of Soviet guards making their way to the Soviet War Memorial, 20th August 1962. The crowd were incensed by the death of 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who was shot while trying to cross the Berlin Wall a few days earlier. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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- Title: Tension In Berlin
- Creator: Central Press
- Date Created: 1962-08-20
- Provenance: Hulton Archive
- Subject Keywords: People, Conflict, Horizontal, Full Length, Black And White, Protest, Crowd, Carrying, Police Officer, Germany, Street, Berlin, Law, Adult, Politics, Protestor, Emergency Equipment, Riot, Medium Group Of People, Men, Only Men, Stone, Arrest, Adults Only, Soviet War Memorial, 1960-1969
- Collection ID: 60
- Collection: Hulton Archive
- Artist Title: Stringer
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