Berlin honors victims 58 years after the Wall was built
By DW
17 August 2019 |
5:36 pm
Victims of Berlin’s former Soviet-era Wall, whose construction began 58 years ago, are being remembered in the capital. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned of 'new walls' in electoral thinking.
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