Wall Should Go to Waste, Party Says
Reinforced concrete slabs from the Berlin Wall should be used for building silos and manure storage containers, an East German political party said Saturday.
Prized wall graffiti would not have to vanish if the concrete were put to such use, the Democratic Peasants Party’s official newspaper said.
“Valuable paintings would certainly face outward and would thus be maintained for future generations,” the paper said. “Why shouldn’t villages also have such a tourist attraction?”
Since Communist authorities opened the wall Nov. 9 after 28 years, East German officials have said the border barrier will be dismantled and sold by the slab to foreigners paying hard currency.
East German border guards removed a first 320-yard stretch of the 100-mile wall in West Berlin last week and carted the pieces off to a depot.
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