Berlin Wall

Yesterday, I stumbled onto a fantastic website documenting the Berlin Wall. It's in German, but the map feature is intuitive, so you can probably follow your nose even without German.

The two photos below were both taken around 1988-1989 (probably just before the collapse of East Germany). In the first photo, the building in the center is the building where we are now living. Our unit is one floor below the top floor, just to the right of the lamppost in the foreground.



In this second photo, the building we now live in is directly behind the watch tower. (Our unit is around the corner, and not visible from this angle.)



The contrast between then and now is breathtaking. Here's the street scene outside my window today:


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