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Next entry: Brandenberg Gate
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Here’s another more intact section of the Berlin Wall. Looking at it, so low in comparison to say the Palestinian Wall, one is surprised. My colleagues told me that originally there were two rows of walls and the ground between them was mined, and of course watched by guards. Nevertheless this wall resulted in 80 officially recorded deaths in 28 years, and possibly 200 according to unofficial sources. Without belittling this, this is the same number killed over just a few years at the electric fence built between South Africa and Mozambique in the 1970s in order to keep the “communist revolution” out. Of course South Africa has a great history of separation barriers, and possibly the earliest was the almond hedge planted by Jan van Riebeck in the 1660’s. According to The Cape Town Pass it was “to protect the cattle of the Cape colonists”. (From the people who were living and farming there before the settlers arrived). This hedge (although it still exists in part today) quickly fell into disuse when the colonists rapidly expanded out from the settlement at what is now Cape Town. As distasteful as these separation barriers are, it is also interesting to note how many of them there have been through history: Hadrian’s Wall, Offa’s Dyke, and The Great Wall of China to mention a few.
Link: The Berlin Wall at Wikipedia.
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