Cold War Remembrance

Bernauer Strasse witnessed some of the most tragic scenes when the city was divided in 1961: East Berliners jumped from apartment windows, vaulted over barbed wire, tunnelled beneath the streets in an attempt to reach freedom. The Berlin Wall Memorial - which includes the city's only unadorned stretch of border fortifications and a superb museum - marks the iniquity, compliance and heroism of East and West Berliners during those tragic years. A must see.