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...was the name of the Berlin Wall given by the GDR regime, built on this day, Aug. 13th, 45 years ago.

It tore a gap through families, friends, fiancés... and cost at least 125 people their lives.

The surprise that its construction had on the world can only be topped by the surprise that accompanied its demise.

What does everyone here know about the Wall, nowadays? Who has memories related to it?

...was the name of the Berlin Wall given by the GDR regime, built on this day, Aug. 13th, 45 years ago.

It tore a gap through families, friends, fiancés... and cost at least 125 people their lives.

The surprise that its construction had on the world can only be topped by the surprise that accompanied its demise.

What does everyone here know about the Wall, nowadays? Who has memories related to it?
My parents were in Hamburg when the wall was torn down.:)

All I know about it (since I was but a youngin' in the late 80s) was that my folks and apparently Europe in general thought it meant the final end to the superpower conflict and that Russia and the US would disarm, make up and the world would be at peace.

All I know about it (since I was but a youngin' in the late 80s) was that my folks and apparently Europe in general thought it meant the final end to the superpower conflict and that Russia and the US would disarm, make up and the world would be at peace.

and that dream should now be crushed.

I was quite happy when I saw it in the Tagesschau, because it meant we no longer had to wait at that fuckin' border when visiting friends in Dresden.

The consequences eluded me back then, what with being 7 and stuff. :D

In good standing with my capitalist beliefs, I purchased a piece of the wall for several Euros from a vendor, on the east side of Berlin. The irony was really delightful, and it is now sitting on a shelf in my basement. Alongside a picture of my grandfather on the western side of the wall in front of the Brandenburg gate some decades back, and a picture of me in front of the Brandenburg gate on what was the eastern side, since the demise of the wall.

My granpapy was an american soldier that was in germany during the fifties for that stuff... nothing extreme ever happened militarily though. Flash foward about 30 years.. to the fall of the wall, and the movie Buffalo Soldiers, that is a damn good movie. I've been told corruption in the US army is that bad.

Actually, this is one of my earliest memories. I was 2, and I was watching Sesame Street or some such show with my mom. The phone rings, and my mom just says, "No way." She hangs up the phone and tunes the TV to NBC, and there it is. People were tearing down a huge wall and were cheering. My mom said to me, "Son. Remember this moment. It will be one of the most important in your life." And I still have clear memories of it to this day.

In good standing with my capitalist beliefs, I purchased a piece of the wall for several Euros from a vendor, on the east side of Berlin. The irony was really delightful, and it is now sitting on a shelf in my basement. Alongside a picture of my grandfather on the western side of the wall in front of the Brandenburg gate some decades back, and a picture of me in front of the Brandenburg gate on what was the eastern side, since the demise of the wall.The irony is that if you paid for it in Euros, it probably isn't real... :p

I know there was some concrete in it. That's about it really.

um... that all happened before i was born.

um... that all happened before i was born.
Hey! Stop making me feel old! I'm 19 and I feel old. Sad.

Hey! Stop making me feel old! I'm 19 and I feel old. Sad.Just wait until you turn 20...

Just wait until you turn 20...
Hey, it's coming soon. The most anti-climactic birthday ever. Still too young to buy alcohol or drink legally. Already old enough to get cigarettes and gamble.

The irony is that if you paid for it in Euros, it probably isn't real... :p
Actually, it's from the Checkpoint Charlie museum, and has a bit of graffitti on it. So maybe that adds a bit of authenticity.

The other bit of concrete I got ahold of is from Modlareuth, and I know it's real. Modlareuth is a small village on the Bavaria-Thuringen border, and, in fact, the border runs right down the middle of town. The Soviets built a wall through Modlareuth, and after the collapse of the DDR, the Locals tore down the wall and dumped the crappy concrete in piles next to a barn, I walked over to the piles and broke pieces off with my hands.

Just goes to prove even the communists instruments of oppression were sucky quality.

Human rights atrocity.

...was the name of the Berlin Wall given by the GDR regime, built on this day, Aug. 13th, 45 years ago.

It tore a gap through families, friends, fiancés... and cost at least 125 people their lives.

The surprise that its construction had on the world can only be topped by the surprise that accompanied its demise.

What does everyone here know about the Wall, nowadays? Who has memories related to it?
"All in all, its just another brick in the wall"

~~Pink Floyd~~

I sometimes wish we would build a new one around Bavaria and send all the idiots southward. (/jk)

Glad it's gone.

well my old geography teacher was there when it came down even has a piece of it as for me its was just under a month before I was born so meh

too young to ever be scared of the cold war to old to miss it I got the best of both worlds