Berlin Wall Memorial

We visited the Berlin War Memorial, which extends 1.4kms along Bernauer Strasse on the former border strip between East and West Berlin. Two hundred and twenty metres of the of the original border wall that once encircled Berlin along 155 kilometres has been preserved as part of the memorial. The Berlin Wall Memorial tells the history of division for Berlin, Germany and Europe. There are stories of families being torn apart, there is the Window of Remembrance that individually remembers victims of the Wall, and there is the Chapel of Reconciliation which is located on the site where the Church of Reconciliation stood before it was torn down in 1985. There is also a viewing platform about 8 flights of stairs up that looks down on the original border wall. It was both interesting and sad to learn more about the people, the suffering and sacrifices made.Read more