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  • Updated By Audrey118 on March 2, 2003
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    Berlin Wall
    by Audrey118
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    Just imagine one day you woke up from your sleep in the morning, and finds that your friends, neighbours, loved ones are across a thick wall - and that you cannot see them anymore. this is what happened when the Berlin wall was built.

    The wall is not circular but it is sort of zig zag around the city. Some parts are no longer around - but there is a marking on the pavement with red brick.

    Some places had the wall which is 30-foot-tall concrete thing, with barbed wire and a killing zone of tank traps. But in others, especially up in the French Sector, it was just the backs of those buildings.

    There are lots of vendors selling souveniers claiming it is a piece of the broken down wall...just do not be gullible...it is very unlikely you get to see even crumbs!!!

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  • Updated By Audrey118 on March 2, 2003
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    The Wall was built overnight...

    Iagine waking up one day and you realise your family lives next block up, now lives across from wall and you have no contact with them anymore. The wall was not a circular wall it was rather a zig-zag one along ward lines and alley. It just appears out of no where.

    Some parts have a 30-foot-tall concrete thing, with barbed wire - looks just like a killing zone of tank traps. But in others, especially up in the French Sector, it ran through what had been blue-collar apartment blocks, and in some were just the backs of those buildings.

    A good place to see would be near the Potsdam Sq.

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  • By martin_nl on April 12, 2003
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    Up until 1989 the city of Berlin and actually the whole of Germany was divided into East and West. Right through the city there was a big wall. It stretches from Ostbahnhof station to the Oberbaumbrücke. Nowadays big pieces of the wall are stil there. Many artists spray the wall with beautiful art. Unfortunately I don't have a good example to show this art to you.

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  • Updated By barryg23 on March 12, 2007
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    There are many areas in the city where you can see traces of the Berlin Wall. Though once a symbol of division in the city, nowadays the wall is chiefly of interest to historians and tourists. I remember reading about the wall when very young, and seeing the pictures on TV when it finally toppled. It was great to get the chance to see it for real.

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    Berlin Wall: THE WALL One of the main icons...
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  • By SirRichard on August 25, 2002
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  • Berlin Wall - Berlin
    by SirRichard
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    THE WALL
    One of the main icons of Berlin hardly exists anymore. You can buy a piece in a souvenir shop or go see the little remains near the Hauptbahnof and the Reichstag. The East Side Gallery is the largest open-air gallery in the world where the longest remaining section has been painted in bright, optimistic colours. To identify the west part of the wall, look for the colours. The east part is always grey :-((

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    Berlin Wall: New Architecture - Reconcilation Chapel
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  • Updated By yooperprof on January 3, 2005
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    A simple, austere religious building, remarkable well-suited for its site.

    There had been a neo-gothic pile here, much loved in its community - but it was located on Bernauer Strasse, one of the street most affected (and most traumatized) by the division of Berlin into East and West. The church was on the Eastern side (just barely), but it was in the "no-go" zone too close to the West for comfort. The church was closed by the DDR authorities; and in the 1985 it was ruthlessly demolished. (Another five years, and it surely would have been spared.)

    The Reconcilation Chapel was built to the designs of a local architect/designer who wanted something that would resonate far beyond Berlin. Undeniably contemporary in its concept and execution, the Chapel is inspired by a post-theocratic, post-Barthian concept of religion that emphasizes the need to re-create the foundations of faith after the traumas of the 20th century. The building succeeds marvellously in creating a space set apart from historicism and commercialism, a pure void which allows one to contemplate all the varieties of human injustice.

    This is spiritually as far from the Berliner Dom as you can get.

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    Berlin Wall: The fragments...
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  • Updated By Lena44u on May 8, 2008
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    The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. The longer 'inner German border' demarcated the remainder of the East-West German border between the two states. Both borders were part of the Iron Curtain.
    Walking through the city you can see many fragments of the wall, just look around...

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    Berlin Wall: A historic moment
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  • Updated By sabsi on March 13, 2003
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    Standing on the wall in 1989 was a very special moment... (Apart from that I wonder how I got up there!!! Can't remember!!)

    One week after the wall came down in that special night 9/10 November 1989 when 50% of all German citizens cried we went to Berlin to take our own pieces of the wall and to once in our lives stand on top of it. There was a hole in the wall at Brandenburg Gate with a improvised passport control, a lot people were walking around - from east or west, we walked around East Germany etc....an exciting day with a spooky atmosphere really!! I will never forget those days!

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    Berlin Wall: This is the east side of the...
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  • By RamSter on September 12, 2002
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    by RamSter
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    This is the east side of the great Berlin Wall, now ravvaged in Graffiti and unwelcomed messages, or so they say.

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  • Updated By keeweechic on September 1, 2003
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    The former barrier which surrounded West Berlin and became the symbol of the Cold War. It was built on August 13, 1961 with 96 miles (155 km) of barbed wire barricade and concrete wall which had an average height of 11.8 ft (3.60 m). On November 9, 1989 East Berlin open the border and the wall was torn down by end of 1990 as Communism collapsed and Cold War came to an end.

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