The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Microsoft Corporation 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Redmond is best known as home of the Microsoft Corporation but also of other reputable companies. Microsoft came to the Wall segments rather random. The story goes back to the 1970s, when the Daimler-Benz AG began buying up the area at Potsdamer Platz. After all, this was in the days […]
Location: Bundeswehr administrator for the USA and Canada 1 segment from Waldemarstraße The Bundeswehr administrator in Reston, Virginia, is responsible for the administrative and economic support of all troops, departments or other bodies of the German Bundeswehr in the US and Canada. For the opening of the new building in 1991 a Wall segment was erected in […]
Location: Virginia War Museum Parts of the Hinterlandmauer The Museum of military history in Newport News, the Virginia War Museum, was established more than 100 years ago. The Museum documents the development of the US Army and explains international crises and conflicts, i.e. the Cold War. The Berlin Wall is there on permanent exhibition, after on […]
Location: Rice University 1 segment James A.Baker is or was no US president, but for his services as US Secretary of State during his tenure from 1989 to 1992, he was given a Wall segment in November 1999. It was erected next to the James A. Baker Hall on the campus of the Rice University, which […]
Location: George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum 1 segment At the end of his term, in April 1993, George H. W. Bush was given a Wall segment by the Berlin Senate, which was initially exhibited in the A & M University in College Station. With the completion of the George Bush Presidential Library, […]
