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Previous spread: Barbed wire protecting the Brandenburg Gate. The sign warns that if you pass this point you are leaving West Berlin. Circa 1962. Inset in previous spread: US and Russian backed East German forces facing off over the newly constructed Berlin Wall. Below: August 1962. Police in West Berlin installing barbed wire fortifications at the Berlin Wall to protect it against demonstators. The makeshift sign says the police are protecting the Russian sector.