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The Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and the Memorial
At the Brandenburg Gate, a painter watches a parade from his window, Napoleon carries off the chariot and, one November night, thousands of people climb onto the Wall.
The Berlin Wall and the Cold War: audio walks
What was it like to live in a city cut in two?
5 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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The Berlin Wall divided a city and changed its residents' lives. These routes approach it through different places and episodes within the context of the Cold War. They connect the border with decisions and human experiences, rather than reducing it to a line on a map or to a single familiar image.
In “Wilhelmstrasse to Checkpoint Charlie”: One kilometre of Berlin for two dictatorships and a cold war: Göring's ministry and the officer who organised resistance inside it, the hall where Ulbricht swore nobody would build a wall, the Gestapo headquarters, a family who escaped on a cable from the roof, the tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, and Peter Fechter.
In “The Wall on Bernauer Straße”: The street where the Wall ran past people's front doors: neighbours jumping into firemen's safety sheets, a 145-metre tunnel, a bullet whose owner was changed by propaganda, a church blown up, and a 19-year-old policeman who leapt the barbed wire.
In “East Side Gallery and Oberbaum”: You start in Stralauer Platz, in front of a piece of the first Wall, the one built from blocks.
Choose from 5 independent walks in Berlin. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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The Wall on Bernauer Straße: the street split in two
The street where the Wall ran past people's front doors: neighbours jumping into firemen's safety sheets, a 145-metre tunnel, a bullet whose owner was changed by propaganda, a church blown up, and a 19-year-old policeman who leapt the barbed wire.
The East Side Gallery and the Oberbaum Bridge
You start in Stralauer Platz, in front of a piece of the first Wall, the one built from blocks.
Kreuzberg SO 36: from Kottbusser Tor to the Wall
You start at Kottbusser Tor, a city gate that no longer exists, where workers from Turkey arrived when the Wall left Kreuzberg on the edge.
From Wilhelmstrasse to Checkpoint Charlie: from Nazi power to the Wall
One kilometre of Berlin for two dictatorships and a cold war: Göring's ministry and the officer who organised resistance inside it, the hall where Ulbricht swore nobody would build a wall, the Gestapo headquarters, a family who escaped on a cable from the roof, the tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, and Peter Fechter.
Berlin, before you go
Berlin alternates broad avenues, courtyards and neighbourhoods with lives of their own. Walk each area slowly and use transport between them: several good walks make more sense than one marathon.
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