The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]