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Clear-up squads transport the possessions of occupants of bordering houses in Bernauer Street at the border between East and West Berlin because of a compulsory evacuation, 24 September 1961. From 13 August 1961, the day of the building of the Berlin Wall, until the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR were separated by the iron curtain between West and East.