Yesterday Susan and I took the subway to the Berlin Wall museum in Wedding, a northern Berlin suburb. It's a huge memorial site, running many blocks along Bernauer Strasse. I shot the above video from an observation tower across the street. This is one of the sites I didn't have time to see last year.
The section you see is being maintained as it was in 1989. There's the "Hintermauer" or rear-wall on the East German side. Then there's a guard tower, lights, raked sand (so that any attempt to cross is clearly visible for Stasi investigators) and the western side of the wall. About a block away there's a documentation center as well. This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the wall's construction (August 13, 1961), and are a whole series of events and exhibitions in the works.
