People lay wreaths at a wall memorial at Bernauer Strasse on August 13, 2001 to mark the 40th annive.....
People lay wreaths at a wall memorial at Bernauer Strasse on August 13, 2001 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's construction. East Germany's Communist leaders built the wall in 1961 to counter a growing flood of refugees to the West. The Berlin Wall became a hated symbol of the Cold War.