One Berlin


I was out and about around Bernauer Strasse recently. The street was a major dividing point in the old East and West days. Homes and churches were torn down here because they stood in the way of The Wall. Today there is a Wall Memorial that runs along a long stretch of the street. The Memorial shows what life was like in the divided city through photos and personal accounts.


Bernauer Strasse was one of the few places where Easterns and Westerners could "meet up" again. Here we see a mother and father lifting their twin babies high in the air so that family in the East would get to know them. 

A Western couple was smart enough to bring a ladder, so they would have a better view of their loved ones in the East. I find it so hard to imagine what life must have been like for people then, and it's not even that long ago - only twenty-five years! 

It's Monday again and you'll find more murals at Monday Mural.

28 comments:

  1. Wow thats a piece of history here. Thanks for showing.

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  3. I just can not imagine living under those conditions of evil and hopelessness.

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  4. Really interesting and a good reminder of how things were.

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  5. Not so long ago that I remember. Best that we do remember lest we repeat the past.

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  6. A reminder of a horrible time from the past.

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  7. oh wow halcyon, i love this one...it is crazy to think this wasn't that long ago...

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  8. As mentioned we do need to remember what crazy things people do to each other.

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  9. This is a great post. Really interesting! Thanks for sharing!

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  10. I agree, it is hard to even imagine what it must have been like for a city to be divided like that.

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  11. A fascinating insight and way of portraying past events.

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  12. I really love this one, Hal! Fascinating reminder of the past!

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  13. Lovely mural with an historical twist. I was on a plane out of Frankfurt when the pilot announced the wall had fallen! Epic moment, every one clapped and was happy!

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  14. That was a nice project for people on both side of the wall. And I love this mural. Do you think we'll ever get over the need to control and kill other people?

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  15. The 'divided city' was an amazing story... so much history... so much human drama.

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  16. Strange to think on it now. There's a section of the Wall here in the War Museum.

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  17. Yes ..those sad times are really recent history. Can only hope that some of the sad things going on today result in endings as happy.

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  18. The days of the wall were very sad!

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  19. such an odd thing to have occurred in our lifetime.

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  20. Great post.
    I was in Berlin about 2-3 months before all happened - the walls opened. But not after that.

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  21. What an amazing mural Hal, I don't know why but I always imagined the wall to be much higher.

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  22. What an amazing mural Hal, I don't know why but I always imagined the wall to be much higher.

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    1. These photos show the "first" wall. It was under a continuous improvement project and got higher in later years. Not to mention on the East side there was a "death strip" so people couldn't really come right up to the Wall.

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  23. Walls are so depressing and, sadly very sadly, it seems they're more and more "fashionable" these days...
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/11/11/these-14-walls-continue-to-separate-the-world/

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    1. I agree. It's sad that we still have walls in this day and age. And people who want to erect more of them!

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  24. Thanks for showing these pix, Halcyon. It is fascinating to see these reminders of life with the wall.

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