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Berlin Wall checkpoint, Berlin, Germany and Iwo Jima Memorial caption

Identifier: C0270B434_261
Title: Berlin Wall checkpoint, Berlin, Germany and Iwo Jima Memorial caption
Description: Photograph of two people in a small tower with broken windows, accompanied by the following text: "Above: Checkpoints such as these were facts of life along the border of East and West Berlin for nearly thirty years during the Cold War. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the checkpoints were dismantled as Germany reunited.; Opposite: This seventy-eight-foot-tall bronze memorial, overlooking Washington, D.C., in Arlington, Virginia, honors the World War II soldiers who raised the flag on the island of two Iwo Jima during the battle there in February 1954, the statue is the work of the artist Felix de Weldon, who sculpted the scene in clay just seventy-two hours after seeing a photograph of the flag raising. It took hundreds of artisans eight years to finish the memorial."
Date: 2001?
Extent: 6.25x9.25
Subject: Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Cold War; Booknotes (Television program)
Type: Photograph
Format: Color
Language: Eng
Physical location: Box 434
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Copyright not held by George Mason University Libraries. Restricted to personal, non-commercial use only. For permission to publish, contact Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.