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25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989.
Visitors peer through a gap in a portion of the Berlin Wall at t a still-standing section of the former Berlin Wall, behind which lies the so-called 'death strip,' where East German guards had the order to shoot on sight anyone attempting to flee across to West Berlin, at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, Germany. Germany will mark the 20th anniversary this year of the fall of the Wall, which paved the way for the end of communist rule across Eastern Europe and German reunification later on. The Berlin Wall, built by the communist East German government in 1961, divided communist-controlled East Berlin and Allied-occupied West Berlin,August , 2009.
Photo ID: BERLIN_25TH052
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