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Stretching about 1.4 kilometres along Bernauer Strasse, the Berlin Wall Memorial is the central national site for remembering the divided city and those who died at its border. The street itself was one of the most notorious points of the divide: the buildings stood in the East while their pavement lay in the West, and in the first chaotic days after 13 August 1961 residents leapt from upper-storey windows to reach the other side before the houses were sealed and demolished. The memorial, inaugu...