The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center 4 segments A museum for American history wouldn’t be complete, if there wasn’t a discussion of military conflicts. With the exhibition The Price of Freedom Americans at War the Smithonian tries to fulfil its obligation to display military history. A part of this extensive exhibition is dedicated […]
Location: Rhein Main Base 1 segment The Airlift Memorial in Frankfurt/Main was opened on June 26, 1985, the thirty-seventh anniversary of the beginning of the Airlift to Berlin. In 2008, after the complete withdrawal of U.S. Air Force, the entire area was redesigned and the aircrafts were restored by the Fraport AG. The center […]
Location: MueGa Park 2 segments In 1992, a 65 hectare wide landscape at the banks of the river Ruhr was transformed into a park landscape as part of the North Rhine Westfalia’s flower show. In the MueGa Park twin towns of Muehlheim presented themselves with subject areas. One of Muelheim twin towns at that time was […]
Location: Berliner Platz in front of the town hall 2 segments In March 1995, the Bocholt citizens Bernd Roßmöller and Christoph Schares brought two Wall segments to their hometown on their own initiative and unloaded them without permission in front of the town hall. However, the two segment were officially accepted as a major symbol for West German’s […]
Location: Museum of Technology 1 segment The Museum of Technology in Speyer is not only interested in political aspects but also in technical details of the frontier fortifications, as you can see on a display next to the Wall segment. Further details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. To upload a photo, […]