Originally these mementoes were put up at all places where people died trying to escape from East Germany by a Berlin citizens’ association.
In the meantime the white crosses have been concentrated in two places, on the banks of the Spree close to the Reichstag and on Bernauer Straße. A plate along the Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer supplies information about the memorial “White Crosses” close to the Reichstag.
