The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: CIA parking lot 3 segments from Potsdamer Platz The history of the division of Germany and the Cold War is also a story of the intelligence services on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The Central Intelligence Agency, as the leading service in the West, owns itself three Wall segments, that were erected as a memorial […]
Location: History House of Greater Seattle 1 segment The History House of Greater Seattle is actually devoted to the diverse life in and around Seattle – in the past, in the present and in the future. Arts, humanities and technology are the spectrum of the numerous exhibits and activities. Thanks to a donation of the Australian […]
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 […]