A building covered in advertising standing on a snow-covered section of former no-mans land along the route of the former Berlin Wall near Warschauerstrasse in former East Berlin. The route of the Wall, which stood from 1962-1989, has been developed into the 'Mauerweg,' a thoroughfare which traces most of the route of the Wall which encircled the city and divided it into East and West Berlin during the Cold War. In the years following the 1989 civil uprising in the German Democratic.Republic, most of the Wall was removed as part of the reunification strategy which united the pro-Soviet DDR and the Federal Republic of (West) Germany.
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