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East Berlin "death strip" of the Berlin Wall, as seen from the Axel Springer AG Building, 1984 East Berliners and East Germans could not, at first, travel to West Berlin or West Germany at all. This regulation remained in force essentially until the fall of the Wall, but over the years several exceptions to these rules were introduced, the most ...
Later, it was extended and today it includes the Berlin Wall Documentation Center, a visiting center, the Chapel of Reconciliation, the Window of Remembrance with portraits of those who lost their lives on the grounds of the Berlin Wall, and a 60-meter-long section of the former border installations which is enclosed by steel walls at both ends.
Virtually every road that was severed by the Berlin Wall, every road that once linked from West Berlin to East Berlin, was reconstructed and reopened by 1 August 1990. In Berlin alone, 184 km (114 mi) of wall, 154 km (96 mi) border fence, 144 km (89 mi) signal systems and 87 km (54 mi) barrier ditches were removed.
House librarian Tizane Navea-Rogers digs through The Independent’s photography archive and revisits the final days of the Berlin Wall
The wall and the Todesstreifen (death strip) Destruction of the city; Building of the wall " Es geschah an der Mauer" ("It happened at the wall") At the corner of Gartenstraße and Bernauer Straße, a visitor centre was opened. The outdoor area of the memorial west of Berlin Nordbahnhof was transformed into an Erinnerungslandschaft (memorial ...
Rudolf Urban (Berlin Wall victim) W. Dieter Wohlfarth This page was last edited on 9 January 2023, at 02:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 cut the street in half. In 1964 the East Berlin section of the street was named after the former GDR Minister-president Otto Grotewohl, who had died in office on 21 September. Several embassies of "befriended" countries were erected on the corner with Unter den Linden from about 1970 onwards.
As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab ...