<p>This is the Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate, the only place you could actually walk on top of the wall. In this area, the Wall was maybe 8 feet high, about 3 feet thick and flat on top. The East Germans let people do this for about a day; we woke the next morning to find every People’s Police, Border Command and, probably, Stasi agent they could scrape together standing shoulder-to-shoulder on this section of the Wall.</p>
November 9, 2014
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