This photo is of me standing next to a portion of the Berlin Wall. It was taken the same day I visited Check Point Charlie. It was amazing to walk into East Berlin and visit shops that were not there just 20 years ago.
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After the division of the city, the Wall also cut through Friedrichstraße, where the famous Checkpoint Charlie was located at the border of the districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte and thus at the border of East and West Berlin. The train station at Friedrichstraße, which has recently undergone complete renovation, remains rather more tragically in the minds of many East and West Berliners as the border crossing point between the two Germanys. The former customs hall was known as the "Tränenpalast" or "Palace of Tears". In front of the "Tränenpalast" the famous theatre "Admiralspalast" was re-opened in 2006. Further north, the Friedrichstadtpalast offers revue theatre of international standing.
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