As I said here, "perhaps the best monuments to the victory of freedom in Berlin are those things that are no longer there: The border crossing checkpoints … where for 28 years traffic was blocked and one part of a city was kept from seeing the other part."
Here are two pictures. The first I took of the border crossing checkpoint at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse in May of 1982:
The second I took of the same place on Heinrich-Heine-Strasse in May of this year:
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