The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: National Museum of the USAF, Wright Patterson Air Force Base 6 segments The US Air Force Museum is devoted to the development of the aerial war, especially the superiority of the US Air Force. A large area is devoted to the Cold War. Thus, the US Air Force has played a leading role in the Cold […]
Location: Loyola Marymount University 1 segment from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg In 1996 Dirk Verheyen, political scientist and former professor at Loyola Marymount University approached the then Mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diegen, with the request to honor the twinning between Berlin and Los Angeles with a segment of the Wall. No sooner said than done: Verheyen could choose freely from the […]
Location: Hope peninsula, David Thompson Road (private property) 1 segment Klaus Groenke, born in Berlin, real estate investor and contractor, philanthropist, art lover and patron of the arts, describes his Wall segment as “a reminder of a period on an island in the middle of the communism“. The segment, which adorns the entrance to his summer […]