DW Arts And Culture July 13, 2024
By east german Border Guards either from the towers around me or from patrol boats on the river behind me now behind me you can see these lit up blue posts these mark the border itself which of this part of the city was directly in the river and 10 people died just here trying to cross from communist east berlin into the west in total over a 1000 people died trying to escape east germany and so its really no wonder that in 1909 when the border opened people came down to the wall with. Picks with hammers and they wanted to just get rid of the wall and the only reason that this stretch of the wa...