The Wall After the Fall

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It’s November 9, 1989! The border’s been breached! Now…

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How do you take down a wall that’s…

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107 kilometers/66 miles long

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up to 3.6 meters/12 feet high

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several inches of reinforced concrete

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and full of artistic and historical significance?

Fall of the Wall: :

Fall of the Wall: the logistics

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At first the GDR took down limited areas to make more border crossings.

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Here’s an early opening near Potsdamer Platz.

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For a while, individuals chipped away at the wall.

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“Wallpeckers” reduced this section to the metal reinforcement!

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After the border was completely abandoned, deconstruction began in earnest.

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The preferred method was to lift out one section at a time, using cranes.

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Much of the wall (the boring parts with no murals) was crushed into sand and gravel that were used to build streets.

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The wall’s footprint is still visible.

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Some other fragments are left too.

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This watchtower is near Potsdamer Platz.

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The East Side Gallery is a 1.3 km long section of the wall still standing near the center of the city. It’s an international memorial for freedom. The paintings were completed in 1990 by over 100 different artists from the GDR.

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Fun fact: the wonderful game SimCity 3000 has a scenario called Fall of the Wall, in which the player is challenged to destroy the Berlin Wall and reconnect the two sides of the city!

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This was the Inner German Border—the border outside of Berlin.

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The Inner German Border was made up of concrete or metal fences, barbed wire, watchtowers, and land mines.

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Most of the fence was either sold as scrap metal or removed and reused by people living along the border.

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It took until 1994 to remove all of the land mines the GDR had planted.

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The area along the border has been maintained as a “Green Belt” (Grünes Band).