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Leo Wolf and his comrades were already waiting on the other side of Checkpoint Charlie. By this time, it had turned to evening and we would have to put our plans on ice until the next day. Work could finally begin on 19th November 1989. With official permission, and under the suspicious gaze of the troops at the border, 30 artists began to paint the four hundred metre long stretch of Wall between Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Straße in the East. Each artist was designated a section of the Wall to paint however they wanted. The painting carried on until the afternoon, when one of the border police gave the order for us to stop. Surprised, the artists had to cut short their work after his change of mind. But most of the paintings had already been finished. The border guards then began to cover up the graffiti with paint that night. To this day, it is still not known who gave the order. However, the paint they used to cover up our paintings was of such bad quality that our paintings could still be seen through it. Amongst the artists who took part in this first art session in the East on that day was Manfred Butzmann.