One of the striking aspects of the vast memorial park surrounding what remains of the Berlin Wall is the small space dedicated to celebrating its fall. It is only at the end of a small museum located opposite the park, whose facade is today decorated with a Ukrainian flag, that we find the images that have had such an impact on us Europeans, in 1989, those of the November night when thousands of people crossed the barriers and danced on this symbol of death and oppression.
Today, most of the memorial park is dedicated to documenting in detail the tragedy of neighbors and loved ones divided by the wall and of the dead who tried to cross it. Testimonies of survivors are heard as well as the names of victims shot by guards in the East or who died while jumping from the nearest buildings in an attempt to fall to the West, while digging tunnels or while flying in a balloon. There are photos of destroyed houses and a temple of “reconciliation” on the site of a demolished church. The moment almost popular With the graffiti on the western part of the wall and the pieces of cement offered by the weeklies of the time in Spain, this becomes an ending that is seen with more sobriety after reviewing the suffering of the previous decades.
