Berlin Wall? Ring the bell and come through

The Local ^ | 04 Nov 2014 11:23 GMT +01:00 | Nick Allen

[WhiskeyX]

More than 150 kilometres of concrete, wire and guard towers ringed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. But it’s not easy to carve up a city - and construction of the Wall threw up many freak instances.

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"The owners had to pass through the death strip to reach their plots -- and for that there was an iron door in the Wall with a doorbell,...."

[Gay State Conservative]

In the early 80's I visited the Berlin Wall...the section near the Brandenburg Gate (which was in the British Sector of Berlin).While there an army jeep pulled up and two British soldiers got out.One proceeded right to the Wall itself and the other came to where I was standing.He then pulled out some binoculars and looked right at the East German guard tower that was about 50 yards away.He then started waving at the guard tower and as he waved he said to me,laughingly,"they hate it when we do this".I asked him if they ever waved back and he said "are you kidding?"

I remember it like t was yesterday.

[ops33]

I was stationed in West Berlin from 84-88, remember taking my parents to Steinstucken.