Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: EPOQUE LTD.
Event Date: 1961-08-14
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.018174

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: Berlin Crisis, August 14, 1961. West German police drew their truncheons today and used them against a West Berlin mob as it jeered and booed Red Army soldiers. The Russians, who had crossed the border to change the guard on the Soviet War Memorial near the Brandenburg Gate, watched this all Western clash. Photo shows: West Berlin police push the crowd away from Brandenburg Gate past the Russian War Memorial which can be seen in the background.Markings:Verso: Berlin Crisis, August 14, 1961. West German police drew their truncheons today and used them against a West Berlin mob as it jeered and booed Red Army soldiers. The Russians, who had crossed the border to change the guard on the Soviet War Memorial near the Brandenburg Gate, watched this all Western clash. Photo shows: West Berlin police push the crowd away from Brandenburg Gate past the Russian War Memorial which can be seen in the background.

Tagasauris Keywords: Brandenburg Gate; Crime, law and justice; Crowd; Day; Full-Length Portrait; Group of people; Group of people; Landscape; Low angle View; Male; Military; Monument; Monument; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Red Army; Russians; Soldier; Soviet Union; Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten); Statue; Street; Street light; Unrest, conflicts and war; War memorial; West Berlin; West Germany; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BERLIN / CRISIS
Retouching: N