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The remains of the Berlin Wall have thus been distributed across the globe as testimonies to the Cold War, to the confrontation between democratic and dictatorial states, as trophies or even as symbolic warnings of new borders or human rights violations. Regardless of the respective concrete interpretation of the Wall segments on site they show one thing above all clearly: the memory of German division and the joy over the fall of the Wall as a symbol for the collapse of the totalitarian communist systems. These symbols are present all over the world to this day and are repeatedly provided with new messages and a new meaning.

We would like to sincerely thank all those who have shown support or contributed to this book, be it by supplying photos, researching or anything else. Without your willingness to share your stories and experiences, photos and memories as well as going to the most remote places in search of traces, we would not have been able to show and tell many of the stories included in this book. Many thanks!