Berlin Wall: 1961-1989-2012

Back in Berlin we stopped at the Berlin Wall East Side Gallery--a long strip of the Wall that has been preserved with some of the original painting on the West Berlin side. Some more contemporary art was added on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 2009
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We then went on to the Wall memorial park, a stretch of wall that has been preserved, complete with observation tower and the death strip behind the wall. Next to the park is an information centre where we listened to eyewitness accounts of the building of the wall and some of the escape attempts. These brought out the human costs and the brutality of the East.