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Updated Nov 9, 2009 - 9:42 am

The Berlin Wall - Twenty Years After the Fall

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Paris has the Eiffel Tower, London has Big Ben, Rome has the Coliseum and Berlin, like it or not, has its Wall. Despite thousands of years of history, Germany's capital city is still probably best known for those 97 miles of barbed wire (and eventually reinforced concrete) that divided Berlin for almost 30 years. And despite today's major hoopla over the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the most striking thing about this particular symbol of Berlin is its absence. It speaks to the power of the imaginative hold the Wall had over not only Berlin but also the world that its presence still captivates decades after its disappearance.

Although I would love to be in Berlin today for the grand celebration in which a mile's worth of one thousand wall-high dominoes lined along the path of the former wall will be toppled one after the other, I WAS lucky enough to have been there just last month courtesy of a RIAS/Berlin fellowship. What follows are photos I took of what remains of the famous Berlin Wall twenty years after its fall.

Photos: The Berlin Wall - Twenty Years After the Fall
Tom Tangney's tour of what remains of the famous Berlin Wall twenty years after its fall.

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