The Berlin Wall: A Piece Of The Past Too Efficiently Erased?

“[A]s Germany prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the wall’s collapse on Nov. 9, many Berliners wish they had left more of the structure intact as a memorial.” The director of the city’s tourism bureau put it this way: “One mistake was to take away too much of the wall. We did the job in a very German way — very organized — and we finished it off, almost completely.”