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Segments of Berlin Wall — 35 years after fall

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Anooshay Abid
November 9, 2024

The Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961. It fell on November 9, 1989. A DW team went looking for still-standing segments of a structure that contained so many people for so long.

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