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It is hard to imagine that it was really just over fifty five years ago,
that this was a normal neighbourhood in Berlin
and now it's one of the last places to see a tiny fraction of a percent of
what the Berlin wall was here at the
Berlin wall memorial.
So although they've had to add a little bit of extra concrete on the outside here to
preserve
what´s left here of the Berlin wall, it is the original that was on the spot.
The important to remember here though
that this is really just a tiny, tiny fraction of what originally
had surrounded pretty much all of West Berlin.
And really, really it´s weird
that this used to be a normal street, just Bernauerstrasse
„The authority of the Sovjet Sector annonce that today, Wednesday the 29th
of December, between 11 a.m and 3 p.m, the building of Nr. 42,
Ackerstraße, will be blown up."
although the community buildings for the church of the parish buildings were
destroyed in 1965
the actual church building stayed in the middle of the deathstrip until 1985
and still you can see a bit of the floor plan laid out
in the grass here
until it was finally then demolished
really only four years before the wall came down.
So when you look through the wall of what´s left of the death strip today,
it´s interesting to remember that it was really right in the beginning of
1989 that the head of East Germany said that the wall was going to last
for another hundred years.
This wasn't just a wall between two separated
countries in two separated cities , but also the wall separated people
from their jobs,
separated friends and separated members of the same family.