The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant, Long Wharf 3 segments of the Hinterlandmauer Antonio “Toni” DiMillo, who owns a large part of the Portland’s port facilities, is owner of some fragments of the Hinterlandmauer probably since the late 1990s. Today, the Wall is serving as an eye-catcher in front of his restaurant and is attracting great interest. Click […]
Location: wasteland at Prince StreetMoved to: Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Bible Hill 6 segments The Wall segments in Truro arrived in Canada via California in 1999. Martin S. Young, a Truro based entrepreneur, has acquired the segments in the sunny south and gave them as a present to his home town in the year 2000. For a long period […]
Location: General Patton Museum 3 segments On the edge of the high-security area where the American Gold Reserves are stored, the General George Patton Museum resides. Patton played a decisive role as commander of the 3rd US Army in the liberation of southern Germany in 1945. Afterwards he was military governor of Bavaria. In 1990, Raymond D. Haddock, […]
Location: Museum of World Treasures 1 segment The former students of the American High School in Berlin Zehlendorf are called Berlin Brats. In 2005, a group of Berlin Brats collected money for an auction on ebay. They bought the Wall segment for US $ 5,000. The segment was offered by a retiree from the Pacific coast. Formerly […]
Location: Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center 2 segments The museum of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is dedicating an area to the Cold War and the associated race and arms race between the US and the USSR in outer space. Segments of the Berlin Wall of course should not be missing in such an environment. Further details unknown. This […]