Life in a Divided Europe Watchtowers, armed guards, and minefields controlled the Communist eastern side of the Berlin Wall, a significant symbol of Cold War division in Europe. In the liberal West, to the contrary, ordinary folk turned what was an easily accessible blank wall into an ad hoc art gallery — whimsical graffiti art, like the examples pictured here, covered the western side of the wall.
(Bernd Kammerer/picture-