Mauer Land: Thomas Meyer’s Photographs of the Former Wall Strip Open at the Memorial

 

Mauer Land: Thomas Meyer’s Photographs of the Former Wall Strip Open at the Memorial

The photographer Thomas Meyer spent eight years on Berlin’s inner-city Wall strip. His pictures open at the Berlin Wall Memorial on 1 October.

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East Side Gallery: The Last 1990 Original Is Being Conserved, and an Exiled Painting Has Come Home

 

East Side Gallery: The Last 1990 Original Is Being Conserved, and an Exiled Painting Has Come Home

After the 2009 repainting only one 1990 original was left at the East Side Gallery. It is now being conserved, and a painting exiled to the park in 1997 is back.

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Checkpoint Charlie’s New Design Has Been Chosen, and the Guard House Stays

 

Checkpoint Charlie’s New Design Has Been Chosen, and the Guard House Stays

Berlin chose a design for Checkpoint Charlie on 9 September 2026: an open square, a roof, a viewing platform, and the guard house stays. What it does, and when.

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The Berlin Spy Tunnel: The CIA, MI6 and Operation Gold

 

The Berlin Spy Tunnel: The CIA, MI6 and Operation Gold

For eleven months the CIA and MI6 listened to the Soviet army from a tunnel under East Berlin. Moscow knew before the digging started. The story, and what to visit.

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Berlin Spy Tunnel Memorial

Cold War Sites

Landschaftspark Rudow-Altglienicke, between Mozartring and Dankmarsteig, 12524 Berlin  

Berlin Spy Tunnel Memorial

An information stele and three panels of photographs stand in a quiet meadow park on the southeastern edge of Berlin, marking where the CIA and MI6 dug a 450-metre tunnel under the sector border to tap the telephone cables of the Soviet army. It is one of the few sites on the Berlin Wall Trail […]

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