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On the 9th of November 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell and East Germans crossed the border, the first thing they saw on the other side was a wall completely covered in bright bubble lettering graffiti – the concrete was packed with slogans like God Ble$$, Concrete Makes You Happy and Death to Tyrants. The artworks that expressed what often could not be said lined the wall as they were helped over. To mark the anniversary of the fall of the wall and the end of the division of the German Democratic Republic (the East) and Federal Republic of Germany (the West), we’ve compiled the following collection of striking photography.

By the end of March, 1945 there had been 314 air raids on Berlin. After the war, the city was slowly reconstructed from rubble i…