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The swift dismantling of the Wall was a reflection of the social consensus: “The Wall has to go”. The people of Berlin did not want to be faced with the Wall any longer, the city should become one again. Whilst institutions and individuals from all over the world secured themselves sections of the Wall to put up as memorials to the Cold War and the overcoming of German division, all traces of the Wall should be eradicated from Berlin. Very few voted to maintain parts of the Wall in Berlin for future generations to see. This was to happen on Bernauer Straße which, due to the many events that took place there during the time the Wall stood, has become part of collective memory.

A 212-metre-long section of Wall stands there today and has been preserved as a memorial to the history of the divided city and the victims of the communist dictatorship. Part of the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße runs across the former death strip. There is a wealth of information about the former border regime, as well as information about how life was for people living alongside the Wall in the divided city. How the Fall of the Wall was forced upon the GDR government is also explained, as well as and how the peaceful revolutions which led to the Fall of the Wall came about.