Escaping the Berlin Wall

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Photograph by Peter Leibing

Photograph by Peter Leibing

Peter Leibing’s famous picture of the East German soldier Conrad Schumann jumping over the Berlin Wall.  Leibing’s photograph of the 19-year-old East German border guard throwing away his rifle as he hurled over barbed wire on his way into West Berlin was taken on August 15, 1961, two days after East Germany sealed off its border with the wall.

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