East Berlin laborers work on Death Strip which communist authorities created on their side of the border in the divided city on Oct. 1, 1961. A double barbed wire fence marks the border, with West Berlin at right. In this view of the area on September 23 laborers level rubble of houses which, just days before, stood on the site close to the border. Buildings along the 25-mile dividing line were evacuated and razed by Berlin reds to eliminate one means of escape used by East Berliners to jump to the west. (AP Photo) Ref #: PA.9300656 Date: 01/10/1961
