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Download five Eyewitnesses describe Stasi file and discover Maps and video podtours Guardian Berlin Wall what it was like to wake the plans had been films from iTunes to up to a divided city, with made for her life. Many 1. Bernauer Strasse Construction and escapes take with you to the the wall slicing through put their lives at risk city to use as audio- their lives, cutting them trying to oppose the 2. Brandenburg gate visual guides on your off from family and regime. Plus Guardian Life on both sides of the iPod or mp3 player. friends. Despite the journalists talk about Berlin Wall barricades, some were their initial hopes for the 3. Potsdamer Platz Visit sections of the determined to escape. GDR which promised an Resistance in a communist wall with this map to One east Berliner alternative to compro- state hear the story from explains how he helped mised social democracy, construction to fall, 29 people to get to the and then the reality of 4. Checkpoint Charlie and find out how the west by building a the detective story The fall of the Berlin Wall city has coped with tunnel under the wall. reporting involved in 5. East Side Gallery unification 20 years Another describes what their work during this 20 years after the fall of the on. it was like to open her time. wall

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Bernauer Strasse is Directions What to see Eating Our film Berlin's main wall U-bahn to Bernauer The documentation centre There aren't many cafes or Berlin residents woke up memorial site and a street station. Walk down the (open 10am-5pm) has restaurants immediately to a divided city - an iron which epitomises the street to Bernauer testimonials, films and a by the documentation curtain between east and wall's impact on people's Strasse 111. viewing platform over a Centre, but head up the west. We hear how the lives and the cityscape. reconstructed stretch of hill to Oderberger Strasse, wall sliced this street in The apartment blocks the wall. You can also head for an array of cafes and two, dividing families and were situated in the east, up the hill to the entrance restaurants. On Sundays friends and how, despite but the street was in the and exit points of tunnel the Mauerpark flea-market the death strip and west, prompting scores to 29 (starting at the corner of is full of cheap nibbles and barricades, some were jump through windows, Bernauer Strasse and lunches. determined to escape. helped by west Berliners. Brunnen Strasse, emerging The street was also the in the cellar of No 7 place of secret tunnels Schönholzer Strasse). that were dug during the years of the wall.

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Potsdamer Platz is now a Directions What to see Eating Our film busy commercial U-bahn station Potsdamer On the square itself sit a Avoid this area for eating if Resistance could put your intersection, but in its Platz. few sections of wall for you can; however, if you life at risk. Members of the heyday in the 1920s and your Berlin holiday snaps. need to imbibe, head opposition tell their 30s it was the transport Walk down Stressemann down to the basement of terrifying stories. Roland hub of the entire Strasse and on the corner the Arkaden shopping Jahn tells how he was continent, the home of the with Niederkirchner centre for cheap eats or go forcibly removed from his world’s biggest and most Strasse, a much longer more upmarket at the home land while theatre luxurious department section of wall exists. German-Austrian Lutter director Freya Klier tells stores the Wertheim and There's also the topogra- Wegner restaurant (Alte how the Stasi used the the heart of Berlin's phy of terror exhibition in Potsdamer str 5, 10785). poisonous gas to kill her night life. The area was the former SS headquar- and her husband. devastated during the ters and the Martin second world war, and Gropius building which then left desolate during hosts good art exhibitions. the Cold war when the wall bisected it.

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Checkpoint Charlie is now Directions What to see Eating Our film one of Berlin's most U-bahn to Kochstrasse or The Checkpoint Charlie Italian restaurant Sale e November 1989. The popular tourist destina- Stadtmitte. museum is the city's most tabacci (Kochstrasse 18 barrier between two tions, but during the cold popular wall attraction. 10969) is good for lunch or ideologies was brought war it was the US army The small white US Army dinner, in the same crashing down as the wall check point for use only guardhouse in the middle elegant building as the was finally breached. We by allied forces, diplomats of Friedrichstrasse was leftwing newspaper, Taz. hear about the famous and foreigners making it a rebuilt in 2001; drama press conferences where central point of confronta- students will pose for which accidentally tion between the west and photos for €1. Two blocks triggered the fall of the communist east. It was down on Zimmer Strasse – wall, and the experiences here in October 1961, once the death strip – of those in the east who that American and Soviet you'll find a memorial to saw the glittering west for tanks directly faced each Peter Fechter, an 18-year- possibly the first time ever. other in a border old apprentice bricklayer stand-off. who bled to death after being shot in the stomach trying to escape.

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The East Side Gallery is S-Bahn station Ostbahn- The East Side Gallery is the Either head towards Twenty years on from the the name for the longest hof, and U-bahn station section of wall which runs nearby Friedrichshain or fall of the wall, how united remaining section of the Warschauer strasse. along the north side of the cross the river to is the city? Residents from original wall. After the river Spree by the Kreuzberg and Oranien- east and west describe the GDR collapsed, the 1.3 km Oberbaum bridge. It claims burger Strasse, both of initial difficulties of section was painted by to be the world’s largest which are packed wtih integration, and of the over a hundred artists outdoor gallery with 106 cool cafes and bars. so-called “wall in the from all over the world. It paintings originally head” which continued to is now restored, and is designed as a freedom divide the city years later. being repainted by some memorial and intended to of the original artists. prevent the wall from being destroyed. The paintings are now spectacular since their renovation and one of the most rewarding sections of the wall to visit.

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