The monument "Parliament of Trees" was created by artist Ben Wargin in 1990 and commemorates the people who died on the Berlin Wall.
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This memorial site commemorates the victims of gunfire and barbed wire at the Berlin Wall and is named after Günter Litfin, the first victim of precision shooting at the Wall.
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Pictures, films, original quotes, interviews and games make history and histories of the Berlin Wall come alive with the multimedia WallGuide.
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His tragic death converted Peter Fechter into a symbol. He was shot in 1962 when trying to climb across the Wall.
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The Mauerpark (Wall Park) was created in the former border strip as a public green space which contains about 300 metres of original Berlin Wall!
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The white crosses are commemorating those who lost their lives trying to overcome the GDR border fortifications to escape from East Germany.
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The Protestant Gethsemane Church in Prenzlauer Berg is a symbol of the peaceful revolution in the GDR.
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„Ich bin ein Berliner“ – John F. Kennedy said this famous sentence in front of the Schöneberg City Hall when he visited Berlin in 1963. However, a lot more German history was made here.
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Stadtmuseum Berlin deals with the insular city that West-Berlin was dedicating it the exhibition "WEST:BERLIN - an island in search of the mainland".