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Whilst the Wall itself was removed from the city with German efficiency, sections of it were becoming hugely popular all around the world. In the first years after the Fall of the Wall, memorials were created from its concrete sections in more than 40 countries worldwide. Now there are more than 200 monuments around the world, in which several hundred parts of the Wall are used. In 1991, there were few reminders of the Wall left in Berlin, except a few building sites along the former death strip. In the same year, Berlin commemorated the 30-year anniversary of the Wall’s construction. The memorial service was attended by the Federal Minister of the Interior and the Mayor of Berlin. Until the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße was opened in 2001, the ceremony had taken place at the Peter Fechter memorial on Zimmerstraße.

On one hand, media coverage caused a stir about the missing millions made from the sale of the Wall. On the other hand, there were concerned reports and urgent warnings that not all sections of the Wall and border installations should be disposed of without a concept for how the Wall should be commemorated in the future.