Traces of the Wall
Take our virtual tour of Berlin Wall sites.
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As Berlin has grown together since reunification, the path of the former wall has become hard to find. The Mauerguide brings history to life through a GPS-linked multimedia handset. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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Bernauer Strasse is now the site of Germany's main monument to the victims of Germany's division. It is also where the longest section of the Berlin wall including both the East- and West-facing walls and the no-man's land between them is preserved. (© © picture-alliance/dpa) -
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A man peers through a slit in the Berlin wall across the death-strip preserved at Bernauer Strasse. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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The Church of Reconciliation on Bernauer Strasse had a congregation that spanned both East and West Berlin, but West Berliners could no longer attend mass when the border was closed in 1961. Eventually, the Church was cut off from the East as well as the border was widened eastward to include a buffer zone known as the "death strip". East German authorities demolished the church in 1985. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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The Chapel of Reconciliation was built from the rubble of the old Church of Reconciliation on the same site in the former no-man's land. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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Jeff Harper was a real US soldier who once stood guard at Checkpoint Charlie. Now his likeness looms over the median on Friedrichstrasse near the Checkpoint Charlie museum. (© Checkpoint Charlie) -
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Two portraits, of a Russian and an American border guard, now watch over the busy shopping corridor where Checkpoint Charlie once stood. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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The Spree River formed the actual border between Kreuzberg in the West and Friedrichshain in the East, so the GDR erected the same iconic 12-foot barrier with the round cap along the eastern shore which normally faced the West. This strecth of East-facing wall remained gray and barren until artists covered it with brightly colored murals shortly after this photograph was taken in 1990. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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Artist Kani Alavi atop his mural on the East Side Gallery after renovations in 2000. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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The iconic East-German car, the Trabi was a little piece of freedom for those lucky enough to get one. The East-Berlin artist Birgit Kinder painted this mural on the East Side Gallery near the spot where border guards once told her to move away from the wall. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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A stretch of the old border zone between Wedding and Prenzlauer Berg is now a great place to relax on a summer day in Berlin. (© picture-alliance/dpa) -
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Graffiti artists paint elaborate murals on the bit of preserved wall in the Mauerpark. (© © picture-alliance/dpa)
