Stunning Color Photos Showed Street Scenes of East Berlin in 1969

East Berlin served as the capital of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990. The Soviet sector of East Berlin was established in 1945. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French sectors.

East Berlin and West Berlin were separated by the Berlin Wall from 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989. The Western Allies did not recognize East Berlin as the GDR’s capital, nor did they acknowledge the authority of the GDR to govern East Berlin.

During the reunification of Germany on 3 October 1990, East and West Berlin became one city.

This set of color photos shows street scenes in East Berlin from 1969.

#1 Skyline, East Berlin, 1969

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#2 Berlin Cathedral and GDR Foreign Office, East Berlin, 1969

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#3 Bomb Damage, East Berlin, 1969

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#4 Brandenburg Gate from the East, East Berlin, 1969

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#5 Checkpoint Charlie, East Berlin, 1969

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#6 Checkpoint Charlie, East Berlin, 1969

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#7 Flats Damaged and Repaired, East Berlin, 1969

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#8 House of the Teacher, East Berlin, 1969

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#9 Karl Marx Allee Shops, East Berlin, 1969

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#10 Karl Marx Allee, East Berlin, 1969

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#11 Looking across the open land adjoining Wilhelmstraße where the Imperial Chancellery Buildings (Reichskanzellerei) had stood, 1969

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#12 Neue Wache – The East German Volksarmee changing the guard, 1969

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#13 New Flats, 1969

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#14 St. Hedwig’s R.C. Cathedral, 1969

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#15 Strausberger Platz Fountain, 1969

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#16 Berlin. Strausberger Platz, 1969

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#17 The Brandenburg Gate, 1969

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#18 The Former Arsenal, now the German Historical Museum, 1969

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#19 The Former Prussian House of Commons, 1969

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#20 The French Cathedral, 1969

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#21 The Old Library now the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt University, 1969

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#22 Berlin. The Wall at Stresemannstraße, 1969

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#23 Unrestored Flats, 1969

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#24 Unter den Linden, 1969

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#25 Unter den Linden, 1969

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#26 Wilhelmstraße and the Philharmonie, 1969

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