The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Kelley Barracks, AFRICOM parts of the Hinterlandmauer The former Helenen Kaserne was etablished in 1938 for the German Luftwaffe. In 1945 the Helenen Kaserne became an American Installation. In 1949 it was renamed to Kelley Barracks in honor of Staff Sergeant Jonah E. Kelley, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions […]
Location: US Army Artillery Museum parts of the Hinterlandmauer 9 November represents the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the symbolic end of the Cold War and the collapse of one of the most repressive regimes in modern history. The Field Artillery Museum has 3 full size panels of the Berlin Wall, […]
Location: Berliner Platz 1 segment The story of this segment originated in the strong ties between Fritzlar and Berlin since World War II: In the post-war years only a few airports in Germany were intact. Fritzlar Airport was one of them and had been used for emergency cases for the airlift to Berlin during the […]
Location: Grenzdokumentations-Stätte 1 segment The Hanseatic City of Lübeck was the only city at the inner German border. In some cases, property borders were simultaneously borders to the SBZ (Soviet occupation zone) / GDR. Until the end of the 1940s, active contacts and border traffic were maintained, in the 1950s it declined. The district of […]
Location: BAV Aufbereitung GmbH, private property some hundred segments What is symbolic of the Berlin Wall today, originally had a different purpose: The T- and L-shaped concrete elements were developed as retaining wall elements for agriculture to fortifying landfills of all kinds. In the course of the expansion of the GDR border installations these […]