Spree - Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall

Further information: Deaths at the Berlin Wall

Many people died in the Spree while trying to cross the Berlin Wall, including children who drowned with rescuers not allowed to enter to river to save them.

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Famous quotes containing the words berlin and/or wall:

    “I got lost but look what I found.”
    —Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

    “What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)