The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: U.S. Army Garrison Fort Leavenworth 3 segments from the Hinterlandmauer Former US President Ronald Reagan was given three Wall segments in 1990. They came from Raymond E. Haddock, former commander of the US Forces in West Berlin, who had sent them to Kansas. The segments were erected on the military ground of the US Army, which is part of a […]
Location: Richard Nixon Library & Museum 1 segment from Leuschnerdamm, Kreuzberg Carl Karcher is owner of the Californian fast-food chain Carl’s Jr., and political companion of former US President Richard Nixon. In 1992 Karcher has bought a Wall segment for the Richard Nixon Library & Museum from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group. The exhibition and documentation […]
Location: Reagan Ranch Center 1 segment In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan, actor and US President – in this context famous for his words, in the 1980s adressing the Sovjets: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” – has bought the Ranch de Cielo above the Santa Ynes Valley in California. End of the 1990s the Young Americans […]
Location: Defense Language School 3 segments Irvin Dyer, an entrepreneur from Phoenix, Arizona, sensed big business with segments of the Berlin Wall. He bought several segments and smaller parts, took them all to Phoenix – and didn’t sell anying. A few years later, Walter Scurei, who was born in Berlin, hired a warehouse in Phoenix, which […]