DESTINATIONS — GERMANY
As Berlin marks 25 years since the fall of the wall, Katie McGonagle finds out what’s changed
WALL STORIES “I
t was like going from a colour movie back into black and white,” says my guide Sabine, reflecting on her
childhood adventure across the wall into East Germany. “Everything was grey and rundown, and every building was the same as the next.” Yet as we wander the streets of Berlin, a quarter of a
century since the dismantling of the wall that split this city – and by extension, the world – in two, I find it hard to tell which was west and which was east.
The occasional remnant of Soviet-style architecture
offers an odd clue, but save for the long line of cobblestones marking where the wall once was, it seems the physical scars of Berlin’s division are beginning to fade, even if the memories remain just below the surface. While Berliners have made every effort to preserve the history of the wall, there’s also an almost palpable desire to move on from that divided
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