Berlin Wall fragment, Berlin, Germany, 1961
date: label: date made
content: 1989
label: associated date
content: 1989
notes: label: Description
content: The opening of the Berlin Wall by the East German government on November 9, 1989, signaled the collapse of Communism and led to the reunification of East and West Germany. Their separation through the center of Berlin dated to the Allied partition of the country into occupied zones after the Second World War. When the end came, portions of the wall were cut into memorial-size chunks of concrete. An apparently limitless supply of smaller bits became available to a global audience who had witnessed the wall’s destruction on television. A vendor in a Berlin flea market sold this fragment to a visiting Canadian student, who in turn sold it on an Internet auction site.
label: Description
content: Purchase, 2011
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
label: used
content: Germany
topic: label: referenced
content: Politics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
label: See more items in
content: Souvenir Nation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0015.01
label: accession number
content: 2011.0015
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0015.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fragment
label: Object Name
content: fragment, concrete
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: grey (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: concrete (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 4 in x 1 in; 9.525 cm x 10.16 cm x 2.54 cm