Life on the Death Strip

05/18/2009 - This year is the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. To me, it's a bit surreal because I was in high school at the time watching what was happening on a tv screen half a world away - and cheering them on. (Most of them weren't that much older than I...and it reminded me how people can make a change peacefully...)

Anyhow, Here in Teltow, the area was on the old "soviet" side, but the part across the canal was on the "free" side. These are the remnants of the wall - which were piled up during and after the construction of the new road going directly to Berlin. 20 years on, and these are what's left - 2 blocks away from where I live - shoved aside by bulldozers- crumbling, cracking, chipped away by souvenier seekers - a bad memory and yet... a piece of this country and this town's history that isn't being preserved. Maybe its good, maybe not - but either way, here's the pictures - including the graffiti that changes more rapidly than I can say.