The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum 1 segment In Helsinki in 1975, the Helsinki Final Act was signed. The provisions of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which were mostly influanced by the United States under President Ford, became basis for many human and civil rights movements in East Germany. Frederik H.C. Meijer, […]
Location: Van Andel Museum Center 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Under the watchful eyes of the public several segments were lifted out of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz in November 1989. One of which was inscribed with “Meijer”. As Frederik C. H. Meijer, owner of a supermarket chain in Grand Rapids got aware, he got at once in […]
Location: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum 1 segment from Brandenburg Gate The most famous professing Berliner undoubtedly was John F. Kennedy. During his visit to Berlin in 1963, the US president assured the walled West Berliners of support by the US. His pithy words Ich bin ein Berliner went down in history. In 1990, Jean Kennedy, a sister […]
Location: Education First’s Headquarter, One Education Street 1 segment Education First, EF, is a language-travel operator, who has been arranging language stays for European students in the United States for about 40 years. Since the late 1990s, a completely preserved Wall segment with mural crown is standing in front of its headquarter in Boston. Further details unknown. Click to enlarge: […]
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. […]
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 […]