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No other structure has had a greater impact on Berlin than the wall that divided the city from 1961 to 1989. Built to keep the SED in power and the East German population inside the country, it separated the people in the East and the West for 28 years. This succinct book tells the story of the Berlin Wall - how people tried to overcome it or learned to live with it, from the division of Berlin before the Wall was built to the completion of the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse.

The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled “1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall” was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context. The exhibition catalog amply illustrates the history of a divided Germany. With essays by Marianne Birthler, Katja Böhme, Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Elke Kimmel, Axel Klausmeier, Kay Kufeke, Susanne Muhle, Maria Nooke, Gerhard Sälter, Günter Schlusche, Cornelia Thiele and Hermann Wentker.