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White Crosses Memorial (Memorial of the White Crosses)

White Crosses Memorial (Memorial of the White Crosses)

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White Crosses Memorial (Memorial of the White Crosses)

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May 1, 2019

Directly on the Spree on the Reichstag bank behind the Reichstag building, only 7 crosses commemorate the people who were shot at the Wall. In the end it should even have been 140 (!) lives.
You should get off the saddle for a moment, pause & linger mentally!

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HamiHH

August 31, 2018

On the north side of the Reichstag building, a section of the Gdańsk Shipyard wall commemorates the founding of the Polish trade union movement “Solidarność” (Solidarity), which made a decisive contribution to ending the division of Europe with its struggle for democratic rights. Lech Walesa, who later became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and labor leader, climbed over this wall in August 1980 to organize the strike movement that gave birth to the first government-recognized trade union in the Eastern Bloc.

The piece of the Wall of the Gdańsk Shipyard is a gift from the Sejm, the Polish Parliament, in 2009 to the German Bundestag. At the unveiling of the emblematic piece of the wall, President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert, in the presence of the President of the Polish Parliament, Sejmmarschall Bronislaw Komorowski, reminded that it was near this wall in Gdansk, where the "fight for democracy" had begun in the communist part of Europe. In this sense, the bronze plaque commemorates "Poland's contribution to the reunification of Germany and for a politically united Europe".

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MW aus LE

September 10, 2017

The memorial site White Crosses on the banks of the River Spree on Friedrich-Ebert-Platz next to the Reichstag building in Berlin commemorates the death toll on the Berlin Wall. The location of the memorial was only on the east side of the Reichstag on a fence in front of the wall and then opposite the south side of the Reichstag on a fence of the Tiergarten. The private Berliner Bürger-Verein donated the memorial to the 10th anniversary of the construction of the Wall on August 13, 1971. From 1961 to 1990, the Wall ran directly along the shore, the water surface was located in East Berlin. The crosses were mounted on a fence in front of the wall on the east side of the Reichstag on West Berlin territory. Originally, the Bürger-Verein set up a white cross at each place along the wall, where a man was killed in an escape attempt. The maintenance of the crosses distributed over the city area exceeded the possibilities of the association, so that he decided to concentrate on the location at the Reichstag and one in the Bernauer Strasse.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fe_Kreuze

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White Crosses Memorial (Memorial of the White Crosses)

1. Reichstag Embankment – Großer Tiergarten loop from Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost

2. Reichstag Embankment – Brandenburg Gate loop from Sundgauer Straße

3. Berlin Cathedral – Reichstag Embankment loop from Schöneweide

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