As a USAF Intelligence Officer from Darmstadt, I stood at Checkpoint Charlie in Spring 1964 and watched Soviet border guards fingering their polished weapons from watch-towers along the Wall. It's easy to see why Communists by whatever name would feel politicaly (if not personally) embarrassed by a memorial on this site. If it's not "public", i.e. under official municipal auspices, by now, there's obviously a reason. But German nationalists, or non-Communist patriots of any stripe, should long ago have resolved any ambiguity regarding Charlie's status. The fact that no-one has speaks volumes for today's political climate, and augurs extremely ill for this once-great nation's future.
As the Thirty Years War set back German polities for two hundred years, so Stalin's occupation plus Khrushchev's East Zone incarceration seems to have engendered a permanent public schizophrenia confusing Public vs. Private, Collective vs. Individual, venues in every area. Germany will be the loser, again, but in a larger sense the loss of such a robust and talented component of Western Europe --indeed of Western Civilization-- will irreparably damage prospects for peace and prosperity in years to come.
This calculated insult to America's liberating forces, both in 1945 and throughout the Cold War era, is not only a gesture of contempt for democratic values but a dangerous indication that where Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and the NSDAP once trod, Ulbricht's murderous descendants are planting their Rotfront banners once again.
I do agree that the lack of a concept for a proper memorial
of the berlin wall is somewhat embarrassing.
To suggest a calculated insult when it comes to the razing
of this private installation would give the spd/pds too much
credit though - they are simply incompetent.