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Historian demands bigger memorial to Berlin Wall
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 08 - 2006


A German historian whose work includes research on
the Berlin Wall Saturday called for a bigger memorial in the German
capital to the people who were killed while crossing the barrier, dpa reported.
Just one day before ceremonies to mark the creation 45 years ago
of the Berlin Wall, Jochen Staadt of the Free University of Berlin
said a more centrally located monument was required.
Wreaths were to be laid Sunday in the city's Bernauer Strasse,
scene of dramatic escapes from communist East Germany.
The footpath and roadway of Bernauer Strasse were in West Berlin,
but buildings on one side were in East Berlin, making it an ideal
place to cross covertly.
A memorial, chapel and documentation centre have been built in the
street, which is 3 kilometres northeast of the Brandenburg Gate.
Staadt, who is one of a team of 12 academics jointly researching
Communist East Germany at the university, said, "We need a place
where we can commemorate the victims of the wall." History had to be
kept visible and be experienced "emotionally," he said.
The Wall has vanished, but a few sections have been re-erected
around the city as monuments.
Sunday's ceremonies will mark August 13, 1961, when East German
border guards began putting up barbed wire fences that over months
and years were upgraded into the Wall, a concrete barrier with
tripwires, vehicle traps and runways for fierce guard dogs.
The number of people killed at the Wall remains in dispute.
According to the Centre for Contemporary Historical Research in
Potsdam, the toll up to the fall of the Wall in 1989 was 125.
However, Alexandra Hildebrandt, who heads a private museum on the
Wall, estimates that 1,201 were killed by border forces between 1945
and 1989.
The wreaths were to be laid Sunday by German Interior Minister
Wolfgang Schaeuble and the mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.


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