Court Orders Removal of Memorial Exhibit
From Times Wire Reports
A controversial outdoor exhibit honoring hundreds of people killed trying to escape communist East Germany, and marking one of the most famous sites of the Cold War, faces closure because of a court ruling.
A state court ruled that hundreds of wooden crosses and a rebuilt section of the Berlin Wall must be cleared because a lease on the land is invalid. The installation was already under fire from some politicians, who called it tacky and exploitative.
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