The Berlin Wall Today
How the infamous line between Communist East and the world looks 25 years later.
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A worker sets up lamps that will be used in an upcoming light installation to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Wednesday at the East Side Gallery, where the longest still-standing stretch of the wall remains. The fall of the wall in 1989 was among the most powerful symbols of the revolutions that swept through the communist countries of Eastern Europe and heralded the end of the Cold War.
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Part of the Berlin Wall stands on the "Cemetery of the French Community" on Wednesday in Berlin. Only a few parts of the 96-mile border around West Berlin remain.
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Top, the message "The wall must fall" and a horn adorn the Berlin Wall along Bernauer Strasse on March 8, 1973. Bottom, a remembrance monument stands at the same spot on Oct. 21.
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A section of a wall still pockmarked with bullet holes from World War II stands at Schlossplatz near the Berlin Cathedral Church on Dec. 30, 2008, in Berlin.
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A woman kisses a child near a mural to former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing former East German communist leader Erich Honecker, in the background, painted on the Berlin Wall, on Aug. 5. The mural is by Russian painter Dmitri Vrubel and part of the East Side Gallery, a surviving portion of the wall known for its murals and is one of the city's main tourist attractions.
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People walk by an original segment of the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin on Sept. 25.
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A child plays along a remaining segment of the Berlin Wall in 2009.
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Visitors walk along a portion of the original Berlin Wall known as the "death strip," an area between inner and outer layers of the wall once filled with minefields trenches, in Berlin.
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Visitors look at a diorama showing an East German guard tower and a portion of the former Berlin Wall at the DDR Museum in Berlin on Oct. 8.
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A visitor stands on the former east side of the inner structure of the Berlin Wall, known as the "death strip," and peeks between the slits at the Bernauer Strasse memorial on Aug. 13.
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Top, a woman looks at the Berlin Wall along the Spree River in central Berlin in 1980. Bottom, the bridge crosses the river where the wall once stood on Sept. 16.
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Top, President Richard Nixon looks across the Berlin Wall into East Germany during his stay on Feb. 27, 1969. Bottom, the same scene on Sept. 24.
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Top, construction work is underway on the Berlin Wall at Friedrichstrasse on Aug. 13, 1985. Bottom, the same scene on Oct. 2.
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An original East German boundary stone marking the border to West Germany still stands in the intimately linked towns of Boeckwitz and Zicherie, Germany, on Oct. 29.
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Remains of the Berlin Wall's border are seen in Boeckwitz, Germany, on Oct. 29.
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Parts of the Berlin Wall are displayed for sale in the village of Teltow near Berlin on Nov. 3.
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A visitor puts her hand through a hole at a surviving section of the wall in Berlin on Aug. 6.
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A visitor pauses at portraits of people killed attempting to flee East Berlin to West Berlin during the Cold War at the Bernauer Strasse memorial on Aug. 6 at a surviving section of the wall.
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A couple walk with an umbrella along an original part of the Berlin Wall at Niederkirchnerstrasse in central Berlin on Oct. 16.
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Children play in front of the painted East Side Gallery, the largest part of the original wall, in Berlin on Oct. 30.
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