Berlin, Berlin Wall

During our visit in 1991, two years after the Wall officially came down, a couple of miles from Checkpoint Charlie, along Mühlen Straße, we found a long (mile or two) section of the Berlin Wall, and were able to drive our RV behind it and park.

We had asked a policeman if we were allowed to use a hammer to break off a piece of the Wall. He put his hand over his eye and let us know that if he didn’t see us, it would be OK. He wasn’t looking, so we have a couple of chunks of concrete, maybe 10 inches long, that we know came from the Berlin Wall, along with the hammer that did it. We also think the following day would have been the right time for them to prohibit any more destruction of this historic feature.

Looking through the wide gap in the wall, that building is the Ost Bahnhof, the main train station in East Berlin.