Opposite there is a city-in search of the Berlin wall

(Brandenburger commemorating the victims of the Berlin wall and the cross)

(Opening of the Berlin wall, Berlin people when something festive scene)

(Brandenburger Tor)

(East German soldiers carrying a boss secretly opened the barbed wire that little boy to West Berlin and family reunion)

(East Berlin's home-made aircraft used for cross-border)

(Remains of the Berlin Wall)

Opposite there is a city-in search of the Berlin wall

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Last fall, I travel in Munich, Germany.

My colleagues from Germany reminded me that to truly understand this country, just snuck into the Beer Festival, drinking a bottle of black beer, two Bavarian-style white sausages, is not enough, at least understand the modern history of Germany.

The most vivid modern teaching materials, in addition to those terror of the Nazi concentration camps, and one of the most important is that the Berlin wall.

Take advantage of the weekend, I bought a ticket to Berlin train, alone on the wall has been 14 years wall of trip.

Brandenburger Tor

Very small when I heard that there are blocking call Berlin wall, even before I knew that the city of Berlin.

Remember in elementary school, neighbor girl always to dispute territorial problems and my feet, even in the middle of the table, together with the painting "38th," I am unwilling, and pencil box in the table, said: "this is my Berlin wall!"

Until you come to Germany before, I know of the Berlin wall are just stay here.

I know that my side, you can come over, and the other side, I can not pass.

Other cities in Germany compared to the present and homely, the bustling splendid Berlin.

You can see its history of burdened, or you will find it as a unified Germany's capital city, full of vitality. This is a dual-Center of the city, on the map, the Berlin urban areas like two partial coincidence of circle, bustling city center from the respective extensions, side originates from the former West Berlin, on the other side from East Berlin. But in two circles overlap, is a symbol of Germany: the Brandenburger Tor.

My Berlin tour first stop, just select the Brandenburger Tor.

This is a place with a few hundred years of history and monuments.

In fact, it is a Napoleon war Berlin 13 Gates complete saved in only one of the ancient Greece temple style of six pillars is known the world over, the four-wheeled carriages sculpture. However, its significance for Germany people, far more than this.

In 1945, Germany was insufferably arrogant, defeat fascism Allied Division occupied the whole territory of Germany for the first Dublin has been divided into four blocks from the United States, Britain, France and the USSR.

In 1948, the Socialist Soviet Union and capitalism in the u.s., Britain, France, in the occupied territories had fallen out of development issues, out of the Management Committee. A year later, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in the u.s., Britain, France, the German Democratic Republic was established in the occupied territories (also known as East Germany) in the eastern part of the Soviet occupied zone was established. But Berlin embroiled embarrassing situation: it is located in the Soviet occupied zone of democracy in Germany, but it is also governed by four countries respectively. In the end, the Soviet Union jurisdiction the East half of Berlin Germany logically belong, and democracy in the United States, Britain and France under the control of the Western half of Berlin became vested in the Federal Republic of Germany, mosaic in democratic Germany lands in an "island".

Initially, the Berlin City although belonging to the two countries, but the people are free to travel to the West Berlin.

Many people who live in East Berlin, go to work every day to the West; others lived in West Berlin, to the East of relatives home for the weekend.

But as the economic situation between East Berlin and the expansion of the differences, as well as the Soviet Union at the time of the democratic Germany high political system, more and more democratic Germany who moved with his family to live in West Berlin.

1961, this figure has accounted for the total population of democratic Germany 1/6. Democratic Germany Government decided to counteract this situation.

August 13, 1961, was the first to get up early in the morning, found in Berlin, together with the barbed wire entanglements of appears in the East Berlin's borders, and tanks and soldiers.

From that day, Berlin is divided into two city.

This road is democratic Germany authorities barbed wire in an assault.

Shortly after, they took the downtown area of barbed wire changed with the use of reinforced concrete plate 3.6 m high wall, built many observation towers, power grids, automatic shooting device, on the side of the wall, leaving open the "no man's land", and even in some key areas, also added "backup wall".

From the Berlin wall is built up that day for 28 years, the people do not enter any East West Berlin, the guards have the right to shoot violators.

Berlin wall length 155 km, it will be West Berlin closely surrounded 43.1 km used to isolate East Berlin and West Berlin, while the remaining 111.9 km used to isolate West Berlin and East Germany in other territories.

192 article original smooth streets are divided into two parts of the Berlin wall, leaving only one of several "frontier", as the West Berlin supply transport of "port".

In the city centre, the Berlin wall collapsed over the Spree River, along the Ebert street side, just encountered the Brandenburger Tor.

Here, the Berlin wall slightly around a little twists, the Brandenburger Tor in the territory of East Berlin. However, people can no longer go through the gate to the previous June 17 Street. On the East Berlin, the close proximity of victory Memorial column always only through the Brandenburger Tor gate dome.

In front of the square has become the leader of the Soviet Union and East Germany held mass rallies, Khrushchev proudly claim that the wall is one of the world "antifascist bulwark".

While the United States President Roosevelt, the Brandenburger Tor and the other side made a famous speech: "the wall is the world's first plug is used to protect against foreign enemies, but to deal with sinceThe walls of their own people. …… Today, we are in Berlin! "

I-control has a photo of the 1980s, through the gates, came to the door back in those days, after the Berlin wall, floor and there is a noticeable than some of the asphalt around new, maybe this was demolished after the trace of the wall.

Now that the Berlin wall had disappeared, the road back to get through, and from the shuttle to this traffic, nobody is going to slow down the wheel here, no one thinks of his own will enter another city of Berlin. I look at the immediate June 17 Street, and turn around to look at the other side of the street under the Bodhi tree, not aware of any discord. These two were the respective host carefully cared for decades and renowned Street, when they again, I see is a lovely Berlin.

1989 9 November night, democratic Germany announced the opening of the Berlin wall.

On the evening of 11, is located in East Berlin Bonn Hall between Mostra plug points first to remove the roadblocks, the Berlin wall and the soldiers guarding it has finally come to an end the embarrassment of 28 years. In the evening, millions of people in the Street Carnival in Berlin to celebrate the day of arrival. Even the soldiers guarding the wall, but also into the cheering crowds, never to return to the post.

1990: October 3, German reunification, Berlin people have torn down the Berlin wall.

In the not far away from the Brandenburger Tor, I see a row of erection of the cross at the street side, there is a vertical shaft of flowers, engrave, with the city of repentance.

Someone pray for the dead, someone to clean up the cross of the leaves.

Crucifix carved with an in Vietnam into West Berlin was shot and killed by a photograph, name, birthday, and was shot by date.

The most out of a cross is to a named Gul River if-Chris handsome man he was erected in 1989, February 5, when the Berlin wall was crossing the East German soldiers shot is the Berlin wall at the foot of the last names of the victims, when he was only 21 years old.

The Berlin wall as a closed area of 28 years, a total of 5075 name Germans in various ways into West Berlin.

But behind the figure of? from 1961 on 24 August, the Berlin wall after the completion of the day, the ancient entre-lite, became the first victim, who was only 21 years old of Ghor River if-Chris date, a total of 178 people buried at the foot of the Berlin wall.

Charlie post

Away from the Brandenburger Tor, I take the subway to Potsdam square near the Nidec Casina Street, this is still a not tear down the Berlin wall.

It is said that the then Berlin people hated this blocking them and their loved ones being separated by walls, so it was declared open the moment before the Government's shovel soil machine arrives, many came to the wall, spontaneously in a variety of simple tools started on it.

Of course, many of them have the economic wealth of the mind, they put those with Graffiti Wall, paint chunks crack, so today's Berlin, almost every tourist souvenir shops, the most eye-catching are those that are carefully framed up in Berlin wall stone, the smallest block of 8 euros, larger to dozens of euros.

Experienced people to vent their anger, which preserved the Berlin wall has been devastated, stone pillars in exposed, however a reinforcing bar height also vaguely shows traces of graffiti.

The Berlin wall in thin than I thought, it is for many one meter wide, three-meter high concrete prefabricated piece got a piece of land to spell, only 10 cm.

Berlin wall carrying too heavy history, nowadays, this 200 m long old Berlin wall was a fenced, tourists can only look to touch.

Follow this section of the wall's end, although past old walls have ceased to exist, but at the foot of the road but there is a stone paving of marking that prompts you when the location of the Berlin wall.

Along the lines didn't go, and came to the most famous of the Berlin wall: Charlie post at checkpoints.

The Berlin wall was built in October of that year, as the Soviet army and United States forces us into East Berlin's power problems occurred friction, the tanks are open to the checkpoints, artillery shells on the Church, not flame to a 72-hour standoff, a war is imminent. Those tanks since no leave Charlie post, there is a place for several decades, until only two German reunification, along with Charlie post the sentry boxes together, from the people's sight.

People say that Berlin itself is a Museum of the cold war, standing in the rebuilding of Charlie post, look at the US military to erect the remind people of the warning signs: "you are about to leave the jurisdiction of us!", you will feel that you could trace the tension sniff out those. air

Berlin wall Museum

Charlie post next to the former Allied headquarters in Berlin, the Berlin wall Museum today.

I originally thought it would be a lot of collections about the Berlin wall of construction and demolition of historical information, came in only to find it chose one, more realistic approach to let you know about Berlin on the memory of the Berlin wall. In the residential areas of the Museum, no preaching, no boring Chronicles, only the number of persons on the wall.

Museum hosts Reina-Shahid Brown at the Berlin wall was built in the second year began his collection, many successful access to West Berlin in the tools they use donated to museums, journalists have their shot of success or failure of the Vietnam Wall story donations.

Here, I see people use to cut the initial barbed wire of the Berlin wall, huge iron clamp to mining to West Berlin in the road with the shovel and soil of carts, using to hide border of automobile, there are also used to cross the river-diving equipment ...

There is a photo: an East German soldiers guarding the wall for a period of hand lift some loose down barbed wire, a little boy from the following hole drilling in the past.

Soldiers lifted his head and a pair of frightened eyes looked not far away from the boss. The boy's father in West Berlin, in order to let the boy reunited with his father, the kind of soldiers eventually paid the cost of dismissal.

A man, in West Berlin

The Berlin wall by digging a secret tunnel leading to the opposite side of the building, to meet his wife and children to West Berlin. However he did not know it at the same time, a group of students is also near to dig a tunnel, when two tunnel junction, the ground suddenly collapse, the man from the cave of explication, stuck in a moment, East German soldiers pulled the trigger.

Wisdom of the people who constantly think of Berlin, various new strokes.

A father to his son made a pair of belt pulley, the son of the strap on the border of a rope to West Berlin, directly on the past.

One of the musicians to their East German girlfriend hid in speaker, escaped the frontier inspection.

The largest share of the exhibits is a 28-metre-high hot air balloon.

This is the father of two clever as their two eight people dive into West Berlin plans produced by hand, material is some old oil drums and water pipes. The family took advantage of a wind just right of the dark night, on his family's backyard launch hot air balloon, they crafted lifting bodies they cleverly had to help avoid a East German soldier's bullet, in the high-altitude flight for half an hour later, eventually landing in West Berlin suburb a clearing.

In the Museum's second floor, a exhibits surprise me.

It is a root with dozens of reinforced welded into a huge network, vertically with many sharp steel Thorn, thorn each root steel has tens of centimeters long. This is the laying of the boundary river used to prevent jump river crossing. East Berlin's borders a long along rivers, live in the river of people often skip

Into the River to swim to shore, in order to prevent this behavior, the GDR army invented this terrible steel gill net, put them one by one, in the river bottom.

Many are trying to enters into West Berlin, not down in the soldier's gun, but jumped to death in a river bottom steel Thorn. But there was a brave divers, dive in to one of the steel gill nets move, then 14 wearing diving equipment of Germans successfully to the other side.

Introduction to the Museum exhibits, I found a frequent words appear: "Escape Helper" (escape help), it seems to have become a specific term or even a specific occupation.

It is many of these people, and help in Berlin people came to the opposite side of the city as their mission. The Berlin wall erected for a whole decade, West Berlin was at checkpoints of the wall had a big sign that reads: "the sincere thanks to those who struggle in Berlin wall here or over there, what they have done to help their fellow men; its sincere gratitude to those who did not want accurate shot in East German soldiers who escaped. ”

Day tour through the Museum has been in the evening, the fall of the Berlin cold winds howling.

Walking down the dark alley, I really want to see people face around Berlin, Germanic people is how to face the memory wall?

Night Potsdam square Sony Center special attention, where once was during the cold war, the Berlin wall in a deserted area, built this sumptuous building, Berlin's shopping and leisure centre.

Its roof is a huge glass umbrella, it is said that its designers hope to communicate meaning lies in: today a unified Germany, people finally umbrella, won't hurt.

But I accidentally come to Berlin to see one in front of the report, saying that the Government of Germany after unification to blood transfusion-policy assistance to East region's economy, and now East Germany region economic level have reached Germany average of 90%.

But tangible the fall of the Berlin wall, Berlin people experienced a temporary ecstasy, perhaps failed to completely melt exists in the heart of Berlin wall of the invisible. In the Munich Office, my colleagues from East Germany face and no identity logo. It seems to me that all colleagues are Germany, they are the same optimism, Frank, well-behaved. But one day my two colleagues in Germany because of small things happened, after-when I try to persuade one of my colleagues don't to heart, she smiled and said: "Oh, he's the Germans!"

28 years of estrangement, not so fast, good in giant ablation umbrella has been erected in the middle of the city of Berlin, people are already firmly forward, and now need is time.

East Gallery

The next morning I went to the Spree River in Europe oberburg El bridge, the bridge itself was a checkpoint.

Berlin wall of this paragraph, is along the Spree river shore, but actually things Berlin border is not a wall instead of river, River and the wall between approximately 50 meters of the zone, guarded "no man's land". Now here is still a land of grassland, only a few isolated old architecture.

Bridge style is very special, castle-like, but my concern is not a bridge or the river itself.

In the East of the bridge, I met a talkative old Germany. With the Berlin wall, he lived in the West. He pointed at the foot of the River, told me: this river, at that time every year, some people swim every year someone is killed in river water. Speaking of which, the man is pointing at the river's Central, silent for a long time. River going back to Berlin's soul, leaving behind not only sad, and introspection.

I asked the old man when he has to cross the river's side, he said that was not allowed to West Berlin 's, 70s, West Germany signed an agreement that allows people to West Berlin day round-trip transit license, they can come and visit, and East Berlin are still not able to go to West Berlin.

He said even over, nor is it possible to close to the wall, near the river bank, for him, which represents death.

The old man told me is the Eastern Gallery, is a legacy of the wall, patted me on the shoulder humorously said: "the wall is true, rest assured! now what are made in China, this section of the wall is not, is the original!"

This is a period of two kilometres of the Berlin wall, one side is grown in the wilderness, it is immediately across the street.

In 1990 Germany Government invited artists to this section of the wall painting with paint. Because it is located in the East of Berlin City, known as the "Eastern Gallery".P > art themes are mostly about peace and two German reunification, after ten years of wind and rain, some have mottled, but I think this is the person who encouraged her to Berlin, to remind people of the world, carved in the wall of reflection, a thick textbook and more convincing.

Gallery of the street, there is a building demolition rubble left behind.

This is a great site, those old Soviet-style buildings have given way, maybe another Sony Center appears. Enjoy Berlin by grinding the Lai is out of the history, fully energized and building their homes.

The Gallery has a painting is a tear a rip of the Berlin wall, the crowds by RIP to the opposite, people face is panic, joy, muna, curiosity.

In 1998, the Government of Germany in Bo NAU-Street to erect a monument to the Berlin wall.

Berlin wall seems to have been buried in the past, those who have put all the solutions, a prohibited place people successfully overcome, there had a hand in weapons handed over cross-border, a veteran of the life, now living in this city, they have been the meanders of the monster over 100 km of the Sun, not the depositors of the Berlin wall and the waste to be punished.

I am just a passer, do not know how to make a judgement on Berlin wall, Berlin wall, the story of 28 years, leaves me thinking of all. Social systems change, ethnic conflicts, or economic level differences, which shouldn't be the reason why human nature being eroded? a wall, it has a reason to stop in our midst? I would like, only when the Earth all the barriers are buried, Berlin wall really complete its mission.

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