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A German photographer who was on the scene documents the afterlife of the Berlin Wall, which came down 25 years ago this month
The Berlin Wall was that rare thing—an ideological divide cast in stone and metal. During the decades of the Cold War, the communist world was kept sealed off through laws and armies, mines and checkpoints, ideology and oppression. But it was in Berlin where that division was visible, in the 156-km-long array of guard towers, ditches, floodlights and concrete barriers that cut through the heart of the city. …