Hy,
I'am from Berlin - Germany ! East !! I can your say,
it give more parts from the wall, still today to say,
as is write here !
Then, as are build the wall, not US-tanks stay in
front to sovjet tanks ! As the East have build the
wall, the governement from Western Germany would a
reaction from the US-Army, the find but the idea to
have a wall in Berlin very ok, first on the evening,
as the highest US-General would visiting with his wife
one Opera in East-part and stay then on the Checkpoint
Charlie, and eastern-german soldiers let him not in,t
here he call 2 tanks ! On eastern part have 2 smal
tanks already stay before ! Before the tanks are
coming, have sovjetic officiers cancel the problem and
have let the general visiting his opera ! First 3 days
later are construct the pictures which one can today
see, but it was be there not a real confrontation !
On the wall are also not die so many peoples ! It is a
bad western propaganda out age from cold wars . Sure
are some about 50 causes, to it two dozen from West or
'refugees' killing eastern soldiers and policemen .
Maybe it was be 2-4* so many, but for this it give not
a real proof . I think on the US-border to Mexico die
many more peoples !
The Friedrichstrasse northless from the Leipziger
Strasse was be a important shoping street before the
have many building destroy, in the 70/80 as one have
build there new building, it was be also again a
important shoping-street ! Southless the Leipziger
Strasse, there where is also the Checkpoint Charlie,
was be before the war, after the war and today not a
shoping street ! It was be before and after the war
more a business-area - many plants for fashion and
printing ! Today it is a ugly area - where nobody want
life, nobody want walk for shoping, and where it is
better in the night not to walk ! Today also the
north-part fromt the Friedrichstraße is not more
interesst for peoples from Berlin, here shoping only
Tourist !
The USA defent (at least in my view) also not Berlin !
I have life in Berlin and for me was be the US-Army
one threat . The USA was be main-guilty that Germany
was be divorced, still more for the wrong Situation in
Berlin . The USSR would one united and neutral
Germany, the USA would the important part from
Germany, the western part, under his full control in
the cold war ! I'am and many another peoples here
would that both army's go home how is possible ! Today
the are go home and it is good so, and I wish not a
town in this world, that this must are before destroy
from bombing, around to get after this the honour from
'visiting' US-Army !
You should know, it give always more as one side on
one thing ! Most many ! It give, of course most in
Westberlin, also many peoples the are happy for the
US-occupation ... more as which in East are happy for
soviet-occupation ! When also the Germans today want
the USA not follow in a war, the are not no-thankful
... the remember himself on bombing or another, and
wish not that this would happen some in a another part
on this world !
Who today missing on most the wall, living most West -
the wall was be important for the world-peace ! It is
better to life without the wall, that the wall was be
fall down can one not thankful are the USA, or one
another western country ! The wall fall down, because
he was be not more important ! ... and what is more
important, he fall not from West to East, he fall from
East to West !
Today the wall is as building only still on few parts
to see ... but to feeling is he every day ! The
earlier wall is today still border - the question of
the 100% from common salary get, or only 90, 80% or
few is often a question if you life or work westless
this line or eastless !
Why to are thankfull ?????
--- Bill Hanrahan <
hanrahan@...> schrieb: > Mar
16, 2003
>
> Missing Berlin Wall Touches off Dispute Over
> Desolate Checkpoint Charlie
> By Stephen Graham
> Associated Press Writer
>
> BERLIN (AP) - Trekking south across Berlin, the
> young overseas tourist never even noticed what used
> to be the world's most famous border crossing.
> "Where's the Berlin Wall?" said Deborah Knott, a
> 22-year-old student from Melbourne, Australia,
> lifting her sunglasses for a better look at the
> vacant, sandy plot where the Cold War frontier post
> of Checkpoint Charlie once stood.
>
> "It's a bit disappointing. We thought there'd be a
> bit of the wall that you could touch," she said.
>
> That dismay goes to the heart of a new struggle at
> the former checkpoint where U.S. and Soviet tanks
> faced off at the height of east-west tension. Now, a
> property developer and a local museum are in a
> growing dispute over how to keep its history alive.
>
> Pieces of the wall still stand at several points in
> the city, including at a somber memorial to the
> victims of communist repression. A 1,400-yard
> section along the Spree River has been preserved for
> the colorful graffiti sprayed by artists from around
> the world after the Wall fell in 1989.
>
> But Berlin's 6 million annual visitors are often
> left scratching their heads when they look for the
> gray concrete barrier that once snaked 23 miles
> through residential streets, across a bombed-out no
> man's land and past the Brandenburg Gate.
>
> Often there were two parallel walls, with
> watchtowers, armed guards and dogs to catch anyone
> fleeing across what became known as the "death
> strip" in between.
>
> Nowadays, Checkpoint Charlie features a reproduction
> of the guard house once manned by U.S. soldiers,
> complete with sandbag defenses and the tall white
> sign declaring: "You are now leaving the American
> sector."
>
> But the guard house, as well as big photographs of a
> Russian and a U.S. soldier, are marooned on a
> traffic island and easily overlooked on bustling
> Friedrichstrasse avenue, revived as an upscale
> shopping street after Germany reunited in 1990.
>
> A privately run Wall museum has campaigned for wall
> sections to be taken out of storage and returned to
> the site, now owned by a property developer who
> bought it from the city government.
>
> The museum claims the developer promised to devote
> space in a planned new office building to a Wall
> memorial.
>
> Instead, frustration turned to outrage this month -
> also for neighborhood businesses - after stalls and
> tents offering souvenirs and fast food appeared on
> the site.
>
> Developer Abraham Rosenthal said his IdealWert
> company still intends to build the office complex.
> But he said the Berlin property market was too weak
> for the project for the foreseeable future - hence
> the decision to rent out the plot for the stalls.
>
> "The plans have not changed, but you can't go
> against the real estate market," Rosenthal said.
>
> "It's a disgrace," said Alexandra Hildebrandt of the
> House at Checkpoint Charlie museum, which documents
> how almost 1,000 East Germans died trying to reach
> the West during the Cold War, including 230 at the
> Wall. Many were shot by patrolling East German
> soldiers.
>
> "This place symbolizes freedom for all the citizens
> of the world," said Hildebrandt. "In a place where
> you can feel human blood and suffering, you can't
> put on a circus like this."
>
> The museum has urged the city government to buy back
> the site and put up a replica of the top half of the
> Statue of Liberty as well as wall sections, and
> maybe a statue of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail
> Gorbachev.
>
> The proposal appears doomed - Berlin is deep in
> debt. But some officials and politicians have
> sympathy for other ideas: renaming a nearby subway
> station Checkpoint Charlie and naming the disputed
> plot Checkpoint Charlie Square.
>
> With Germany and the United States at odds over
> Iraq, the conservative opposition in city hall says
> it wants to focus attention on how the United States
> defended then West Berlin and West Germany during
> the Cold War.
>
> "Germans could be more grateful for what the United
> States did for us" after World War II, one local
> conservative lawmaker told a recent protest meeting
> in the museum. "That gratitude should be made
> clearer here."
>
>
>
> Bill Hanrahan
> email: hanrahan@...
> personal web site: http://users.kua.net/~hanrahan/
>
>
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