 1 Queuing Damien waiting for entry to the ship in Turku harbour. |
 2 Waiting Waiting for the boat to arrive. |
 3 Öresundsbron Crossing the bridge from Sweden to Denmark once again. |
 4 Elbe River Elbe in Bullenhausen |
 5 Damien parked Damien found a good place to rest for four days while we used trains, subways and trams to move around Berlin. Well, actually we changed Damien's place a few times during those days. |
 6 Jump to freedom One of the most famous pictures representing Cold war. Peter Leibing (1941 – November 2, 2008) was a German photographer known for his 1961 photographs of escaping East German border guard, Conrad Schumann jumping a barbed wire fence during construction of the Berlin Wall. |
 7 Model of the wall Berlin Wall model in the area of Bernauer Strasse. |
 8 Berlin Wall Map showing the location of the wall |
 9 Berlin Wall Location of Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse. |
 10 Inside the watch tower The Berlin Wall Foundation uses an abstract representation here to show the watchtower. It is designed to give an impression of the size of the watchtower that was dismantled on Strelitzer Strasse in 1990 and also to convey a sense of the total surveillance of the border strip. The position of the steel construction is based on the tower that originally stood at this historic site. Four 11.8 meter high square-angled columns made of weathering steel are positioned into a square and set into a concrete foundation. |
 11 Kapelle der Versöhnung The Chapel of Reconciliation on the grounds of the former border strip was erected at the very same site where the Reconciliation Church once stood. After the Wall was built in 1961, the Protestant Church of the Reconciliation Parish was situated within the death strip and inaccessible. It became a disturbing symbol of the division of Germany and Europe. In 1985, as the border grounds continued to be expanded, the East German government gave the order for the church to be blown up. After German reunification, the church property was returned to the Reconciliation Parish with the condition that it be used for religious purposes. The Chapel design was based on plans by the Berlin architects Peter Sassenroth and Rudolf Reitermann. |
 12 Reconciliation St. Michael's Cathedral in Coventry, England, presented this statue to the Chapel of Reconciliation in Berlin on November 9, 1999. Entitled "Reconciliation," the statue depicts a young man and woman kneeling to embrace across a barrier. The German Luftwaffe bombed St. Michael's Cathedral in November 1940, killing 568 people; the parish, instead of demanding retribution after the war, accepted the German offer to help rebuild the church. Replicas of the statue are also found in the peace garden of Hiroshima and in Belfast. |
 13 The cross The cross of the Church of Reconciliation. When the original church was blown into pieces, this cross was salvaged and hidden. After reunion it was made public again. |
 14 Death strip The area between the inner and outer walls. This is were dogs were running and people were shot when they tried to escape. |
 15 The Berlin Wall A reconstruction of the wall with a watch tower. It's the original place but not the original wall. |
 16 The Berlin Wall Documentation Center On November 9, 2014, the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, the new permanent exhibition "1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall" opened in the memorial’s renovated documentation center. The exhibition, covering 420 square meters, is dedicated to the history of Berlin’s division. It explains the political and historical situation that led to the Wall’s construction, its fall, and the reunification of Germany. Why was the Wall built? Why did the Wall stay up so long? Why did it fall in 1989? These questions are the focus of the multimedia exhibition that contains numerous artefacts, biographical documents and audiovisual media. The exhibition connects the history of political events with social history, showing how the brutal division of the city affected the people. |
 17 Wall reconstruction This reconstruction shows how the wall looked like, with the inner wall, watch tower, death strip and outer wall right next to Bernauer Strasse. |
 18 Presentation of a watch tower. The Berlin Wall Foundation uses an abstract representation here to show the watchtower. It is designed to give an impression of the size of the watchtower that was dismantled on Strelitzer Strasse in 1990 and also to convey a sense of the total surveillance of the border strip. The position of the steel construction is based on the tower that originally stood at this historic site. Four 11.8 meter high square-angled columns made of weathering steel are positioned into a square and set into a concrete foundation. |
 19 Fluchttunnel 1964 In 1963-64 tunnel builders dug two escape tunnels towards East Berlin. The tunnels began in the basement of a bakery at Bernauer Straße 97, located on the west side of the city. The building no longer exists today; it was replaced by new buildings in the 1970s. The first tunnel took five months to build. It was finished in January 1964. But it unintentionally ended in a coal storage area right behind the border strip, in clear view of the border guards. Three young women were able to flee through this tunnel before it was discovered. |
 20 Death strip This is the area that was located between the two walls. It's still partially unbuilt, like here. Bernauer Strasse is on the right. |
 21 Wall breaks Opening of the border on the 11th of November, 1989. |
 22 Mauerpark In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Mauerpark area served as the location of the Old Nordbahnhof ("Northern Railway Station"), the southern terminus of the Prussian Northern Railway opened in 1877-78, which connected Berlin with the city of Stralsund and the Baltic Sea. In 1946, through the division of Berlin into four occupation zones, the land of the Old Nordbahnhof stretching from Bernauer Straße to Kopenhagener Straße was split between the French and Soviet sectors. After the building of the Berlin Wall, the land was included into the heavily guarded Death Strip with walls on either side. One of the viewing platforms, from which West Berlin residents could look over the wall into East Berlin, stood at this location. The remaining western part of the station was turned into a storehouse and commercial area. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the former death strip was designated as a public space and one of several green spaces in the city by local residents |
 23 Mauerpark A 30 m strip of the Berlin Wall still stands in the park today as a monument, and is a popular place for graffiti artists to paint and display their work |
 24 Mauerpark A 30 m strip of the Berlin Wall still stands in the park today as a monument, and is a popular place for graffiti artists to paint and display their work |
 25 Mauerpark A 30 m strip of the Berlin Wall still stands in the park today as a monument, and is a popular place for graffiti artists to paint and display their work |
 26 Mauerpark A 30 m strip of the Berlin Wall still stands in the park today as a monument, and is a popular place for graffiti artists to paint and display their work |
 27 Mauerpark Graffitis are big in Germany, as this swing frame demonstrates. |
 28 Duck! Former train- or tram stall next to Bernauer Strasse |
 29 Schönhauser Allee U-bahn over the street right next to Ebenhauser Strasse station. |
 30 TV-tower Bride of East Berlin, the TV-tower seen from Bernauer Strasse. |
 31 Posing A mannequin on a balcony |