Berlin Wall memorablia

[Soviet]

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is coming soon, so I thought it would be interesting to share the Berlin Wall pieces that we have in our collection.

I'll start with the only piece I have which comes from the Eastern part of the Berlin Wall (it's all white). Unfortunately I'm not the one who took it from the Wall as I wasn't in Berlin in 1989-1990. It was given to me by a man living in Pankow 11 years ago. The guy had a big chunk and he broke that small piece for me.

Anyway, please contribute.

[Soviet]

Not all at the same time!

Please show your Berlin Wall pieces.

[ehrentitle]

I have an orignial piece of the wall, but it's an unappealing one foot long chunk of concrete with no paint.

[Don D.]

I'll have to take a picture of my chips.

[Don D.]

From the wall, down 20 meters to the right of checkpoint charlie. I have a pic somewhere showing me getting it while my daughter looks on.

[Tretov]

Talking theoretically - ain't these easily faked..?

Find a 30-40 year old concrete wall and smash it to handy pieces... voila - Berlin wall!

[Sergeant 08]

Talking theoretically - ain't these easily faked..?

Find a 30-40 year old concrete wall and smash it to handy pieces... voila - Berlin wall!

We don't need to talk about faked parts of a wall.

The best way to get an original part of the Berlin Wall was to use a hammer!

[Don D.]

Talking theoretically - ain't these easily faked..?

Find a 30-40 year old concrete wall and smash it to handy pieces... voila - Berlin wall!

Good question, one that most of us that were surrounded by it never thought of.

[Don D.]

Is there even a market for it?

[Don D.]

Maybe these people are faking it now.....

[ehrentitle]

Great photos Dan. And in some places it was just a wire fence. As with this photo of my kids in the French sector of Berlin:

[jkeegen]

Great photos Dan. And in some places it was just a wire fence. As with this photo of my kids in the French sector of Berlin:

What year was your photo taken?

[Don D.]

The day after the wall came down.

[ehrentitle]

What year was your photo taken?

Around 1986, I departed Berlin less than a year before the Wall fell for company command in West Germany. But friends still stationed in Berlin brought me a sizable chuck of the wall. Parts of the Wall in more rural areas were wire mesh fences combined with long dog runs.

[Willi Z.]

Here are my pieces. I took these from the wall in Feb. of 1990, just a few weeks before I returned to the US after having been stationed in Germany for 5 years. It was the best day of my tour!