Berlin Wall segment
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20110041-001
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Event
1945-1989 Cold War
1989, November Fall of the Berlin Wall - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made 1975
- Place of Use Continent - Europe, Country - Germany, Municipality - Berlin
- Category StructuresUnclassifiable artifacts
- Sub-category Building componentArtifact remnant
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1975/01/01
- Latest 1975/12/31
- Inscription Berlin tut gut
- Materials Concrete
- Measurements Height 360.0 cm, Width 118.4 cm, Depth 75.8 cm
- Caption A Gift to Canada
- Additional Information In 1991, the government of newly reunified Germany presented this section of the Berlin Wall to Canada. A year earlier, foreign ministers from France, East and West Germany, the Soviet Union, United States, and United Kingdom had conferred in Ottawa, where they agreed to a framework for peaceful German reunification.
- Caption A Wall of Shame
- Additional Information This is a section of the Berlin Wall, a barrier East Germany first erected in 1961 to keep its own citizens from leaving the country. Thousands still tried. Border guards killed 246 of them, and wounded or arrested many hundreds of others.