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Alain Guillou with Malcolm S. Forbes in front of the Wall of Berlin during Forbes Friendship Tour 1987 in Germany

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Forbes' balloon shaped as Bethoveen bust flying at Munich in Germany

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Forbes' balloon shaped as Bethoveen bust flying at Munich in Germany

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East Berlin arial close up of the 9 Brandenburg Gate 2 years before the fall of the Eastern Wall

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East Berlin arial

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East Berlin seen from the sky while Pan Am jet liner over flies the city. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin seen from the sky while Pan Am jet liner over flies the city. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin arial with Brandenburg gate, the Reichstag and the East Wall 2 years before its fall. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin arial with Brandenburg gate, the Reichstag and the East Wall 2 years befor its fall. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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Check Point Charlie seen from the sky with East Berlin in the background . Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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The Eastern Wall seen from the sky two years before its fall. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987. Stationary flight over "Norgraben-Am-Strasse". In the far distance (top left) the vast HLM complex of "Maerkisches Viertel" located in the French Sector. Notice that property enclosed by the wall on one side and by the railway on the other side. (bottom right)

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East Berlin arial The Duck Beak Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin arial eastern soldiers vopos watching photographer's helicopter. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin vopos watching photographer's helicopter. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin Wall . That railways crosses the Steinstucken enclave. Notice the trench against vehicule that could try escape from East to West. Both houses on each side of the wall certainly show what was the break in the country when the wall was set up. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin wall aerial photo seen from over the East side. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin vopos watching photographer 's helicopter. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin wall . Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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The Godess stand on top of the Victory Column and commemorates the victory of the Prussians over the Danes, the Austrians and the French. Notice the golden guns incrusted vertically around the Column and taken out from the French troops after the battle. The Victory Column is located half way on the 17th June street Berlin's longest thoroughfare, the East-West axis on wich Hitler once presided a giant parade staged in honor of his 50th birthday. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin arial view of the Wall seen from the East side. Aerial picture taken from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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The Godess stand on top of the Victory Column and commemorates the victory of the Prussians over the Danes, the Austrians and the French. Notice the golden guns incrusted vertically around the Column and taken out from the French troops after the battle. The Victory Column is located half way on the 17th June street Berlin's longest thoroughfare, the East-West axis on wich Hitler once presided a giant parade staged in honor of his 50th birthday

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Check Point Charlie seen from the sky with East Berlin in the background . Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin arial American Sector. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin arial 2 years ,before the fall of the wall Those 2 restored French Protestant Churches "Platz der Akaedie" were destroyed during Berlin Battle Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin arial 2 years ,before the fall of the wall Those 2 restored French Protestant Churches "Platz der Akaedie" were destroyed during Berlin Battle. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin arial with Brandenburg gate, the Reichstag and the East Wall 2 years before its fall. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin aerial with Brandenburg gate, the Reichstag and the East Wall 2 years before its fall. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987. The Reichstag was badly damaged during the battle of Berlin. The Federal Governement decided its reconstruction and repair for 400 million DM

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This tower located in East Berlin was built in 1970. The DDR didn't have the technology and called in Western entreprises from RFA and Sweden to contruct it. Some German people call it the finger of Walter Ulbricht the first Chief of the Communist Parti in DDR some other people call it the "Revenge of God and of the Pope" because when the sun reaches its top under a specific angle its reflection appear like a larges cross of light. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin Wall . North into the French Sector, they are many large country like space. But in Berlin, anywhere you go, you always find the East. Here the political boundary are far into West side of the Wall and large lands are totally unused. So another way to know where you stand is to look at the agriculture. The unused area is on the East side . Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987 of the former location of the Adolf Hitler bunker

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East Berlin. That railways crosses the Steinstucken enclave. Notice the trench to stop vehicules that could try escape from East to West. Both houses on each side of the wall certainly show what was the break in the country when the wall was set up. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin vopos watching photographer 's helicopter. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin wall aerial photo seen from over the East side. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin wall aerial photo seen from over the East side. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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East Berlin Wall Picture showing 8 East-German soldiers watching 10 workers ! Almost one to one ! The Wall doesn't always materialize the position of the political boundary (picture 36), reason why one can see those East German people on the West side. Notice that some of the guards keep watching at their workers, the others looking at our helicopter. They are carefully watching our helicopter .Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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Berlin General sight of Europa . Hovering over Kurfürstendamstrasse we got a bird sight of the "Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church"

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Berlin General sight of Europa . Hovering over Kurfürstendamstrasse we got a bird sight of the "Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church"

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East Berlin arial

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The Wall of Berlin Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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Berlin Tegel Airport

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East Berlin aerial "Mariannen Church" in Kreuzeberg area

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East Berlin The white building top right is the Foreign Ministry of DDR. The church is located at the crossing of "Werder Strasse" and " Niederlag Kur". Aerial picture taken from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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Berlin aerial picture of the Tiergarten Soviet War Monument near the Reichstag and Brandebourg Gate on June 17th Street. British troops protect the Soviets soldiers since at the end of the sixties a couple of them were badly wounded by angry Berliners.The Soviet War Memorial is one of several war memorials in Berlin, capital city of Germany, erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945.

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Forbes' balloon shaped as Bethoveen bust flying at Berlin in Germany and "watching" at the Tiergarten soviet war memorial