Slab of Berlin Wall Set Up for Anniversary
A piece of the Berlin Wall was reinstalled to mark the 12th anniversary of the wall’s fall and to kick off a campaign for a monument to the end of the Cold War.
Berliners watched as a crane lowered one of the wall’s original concrete slabs onto Potsdamer Platz in the newly rebuilt heart of Berlin, placing it on the same spot from which it was torn in 1989.
The nearly 10-foot-high section was the first piece of the wall to be dismantled. Its removal opened a 3-foot-wide breach in the 28-year-old wall and heralded the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
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