Photo Gallery Remembering the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall Memorial is home to one of the few stretches of the Cold War divide still standing in the German capital.
Read the story: Berlin Still Divided on How to Commemorate Wall
It attracts tens of thousands of tourists each year -- from Berlin and beyond. A simple chapel at the site was built to remember the estimated 136 people who died trying to cross the death strip into West Berlin.
A proposal to rebuild a 19-meter-long hole in the surving stretch of the Wall was rejected earlier this week. Opposition to the project was strong -- with officials rejecting any "Disneyland" style reconstruction.
Berliners have long been divided over how to commemorate the events of November 1989 which precipitated German reunification. "Ever since the 1990s, Germans have had to ask: Can we celebrate the event -- unlike so much else in German history -- or do we have to think of it as a little like May 8, 1945, a time of sober reflection?" says historian Brian Ladd, author of the book "The Ghosts of Berlin."
