3The Man Jumping the Berlin Wall (1961)

During the early days of the Berlin Wall, photographer Peter Leibing captured 19-year-old soldier Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire to escape East Germany.

The image symbolized the yearning for freedom in a divided Europe. Schumann’s leap became one of the defining photos of the Cold War, embodying the risks people took to escape oppression.

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