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Few streets carry as much weight in modern German history as Bernauer Strasse, the long Berlin thoroughfare that runs along the former boundary between the districts of Wedding in the West and Mitte in the East. When the wall went up overnight on 13 August 1961, the border was drawn so that the apartment buildings on the southern side stood in East Berlin while their front pavement lay in the West. The result was some of the most dramatic and tragic scenes of the divided city: in the first days ...