File:Leap into Freedom.jpeg

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East German border guard Konrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire to defect to West Germany during construction of the Berlin Wall.

Source

Time: 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time: Leap into Freedom

Originally distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers. See for example the Globe-Gazette.

Cropped from the source image to the portion that was published in newspapers.

Date

1961-08-15

Author

Peter Leibing

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