A new memorial to the wall will be created in Berlin

Berlin - A new memorial to the Berlin Wall will be created on the famous Berlin street Bernauer Straße. It is expected to be completed in time for the 50th anniversary of the construction of the infamous barrier between the eastern and western parts of the city in 2011, the DPA agency reported today.
    In the former "death zone," which bordered Bernauer Straße during the Cold War, representatives of the Berlin Wall Association have today begun the first excavations of items that will become part of a later exhibition. A red signal cartridge from 1966 has already been found, which was once fired by a patrol of East German border guards. "It indicates an escape attempt," explains one of the event organizers, pastor Manfred Fischer.
    For the purposes of the memorial, an area has been made available in front of the former Church of Reconciliation, which was blown up on the orders of the communist leadership of the GDR. There are plans to create a commemorative space that will reveal traces of the former division of Berlin.
    Bernauer Straße has become a symbol of the division of Germany. After the wall was built, part of the street with the sidewalk lay in the West, while the southern buildings were in East Berlin. Several tunnels for refugees from East Berlin were excavated under the street.
    In Berlin, there is already a Wall Museum, located at what was once the only border crossing within the city, Checkpoint Charlie. The Berlin Wall surrounded West Berlin for 155 kilometers before it was demolished in 1989.