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The Wall at Mémorial de Caen

© Benoît Grimbert / Le Mémorial de Caen

The words “Hase bleibt Hase” (“a rabbit remains a rabbit”), and countless black and white rabbits adorn the two segments of Wall at Mémorial de Caen. They stand on raised platforms in the permanent anti-war exhibition, and illustrate the section “The End of the Cold War”. French artist Daniel Boulogne, donated both segments to the museum in 1999. Whilst many of the pieces of Berlin Wall scattered all over the world are painted mainly on the side facing the West, these two are different. The paintings by Berlin artist, Manfred Butzman, are on side of the Wall that faced the east. This side of the Wall was not accessible until after the Fall of the Wall. The wide deathstrip between the border to West Berlin and the interior East Berlin Wall prevented anyone getting close to the Wall on the GDR side.

Immediately after the border was opened on 9^th November 1989, artists from both the East and the West came up with the idea to paint on the eastern side of the Wall as well.