What happened to all the concrete from the Berlin Wall?

Everyone remembers the images of it being smashed gleefully to pieces and dismantled, but even after its demolition, the Berlin Wall maintains a ... read more

Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945. “Only today,” one Berliner spray-painted on a piece of the wall, “is the war really over.” The reunification of East and West Germany was made official on October 3, 1990, almost one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. read more

The Berlin Wall was a strong concrete barrier stretching 97.2 miles built in 1961 by the communist government of East Germany. It cut off East Berlin from West Berlin. While the communist government attributed its construction to the protection of East Germans from fascist elements from the West, the West saw it as a symbol of communist suppression and lobbied for its destruction. read more