14) The Fall of the Wall is memorialized by the scribbled renaming of the “Street of the 17th of June,” the date of the East Berlin Workers Revolt against the regime in 1953. (1989)
13) The last victim, shot just months prior to the Fall of the Wall, is memorialized by his date of death in February 1989 as an “Opfer der Honecker-Diktatur” / Victim of the Honecker Dictatorship. (1989)
10) Crossing through the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie became a mere formality, as the graffiti slogan exults, and even Mickey seems to say “Willkommen” / Welcome. (1989)
6) Spray-can graffiti covered the West Berlin side of the Wall. Here the message is clear, and it reinforces the first holes chipped in the Wall. (1989)