Viewfinder: The Berlin Wall Has Been Down for Longer Than It Stood During the Cold War

Pacific Standard Staff
February 6, 2018
Remains of the former border wall stand at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse on February 5th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.
Remains of the former border wall stand at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse on February 5th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany. It has been 10,316 days since the Berlin Wall officially fell, the same number of days that it stood between 1961 and 1989.

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