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What remains of the Wall?
| 2009-10-19 By Georges Rouzeau Twenty years after its fall, the Berlin Wall seems to have completely disappeared, or just about… A few commemorative plaques here and there, and then the paved line that crosses the city, a sort of scar that vanishes beneath the buildings. In Berlin, History wavers between amnesia and memory. With its glass towers created by the greatest architects, Potsdamer Platz seems almost like the symbol of this amnesia. Photographs in hand, the journalist, guide and author Sigrid Harms recalls this bygone Berlin, which was dotted with highly dangerous no man’s lands and waste ground. Father Manfred Fischer has been pondering the question of the memory of the Wall for over 30 years, since his church found itself on the other side of the Wall one dreadful day in 1961. In 1985, the church was finally razed to the ground. Since then, he has been combatting oblivion. He helped to create a resource centre about the Wall and had a chapel built on the site of the old church. And his plans don’t stop there… |
