Pieces of the Berlin Wall Around the World

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Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters 1 The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California

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Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters 1The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California

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A piece of the Berlin Wall, which has been on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential

Library and Museum since 1990, is seen in Simi Valley, California, September 16, 2014.

On November 9, Germany will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin

Wall. To mark the event Reuters Photographers around the world captured images of

segments of the wall, which are kept as monuments in many countries from Taiwan to

South Africa and Costa Rica. The Berlin Wall, which divided West Berlin from the

communist East after it was built in 1961, was the most potent symbol of the Cold War.

At least 136 people were killed or died at the Wall, most of them while trying to escape.

On November 9, 1989, following huge protests in East Berlin the wall was breached and

thousands of people poured into West Berlin.

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Ten segments of the Berlin Wall, which constitute the longest stretch outside of Berlin, are seen

on display in Los Angeles, California September 18, 2014. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

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Los Angeles, California

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People walk past a segment of the former Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin October 29, 2014. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

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Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin

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A segment of the Berlin Wall is seen between trees in Yokohama, south of Tokyo September 15, 2014. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)

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Yokohama, south of Tokyo

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A piece of the Berlin Wall is seen in the artists' village of Ein Hod near Haifa in Israel October 17, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

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Village of Ein Hod near Haifa in Israel

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A visitor looks at a section of the Berlin Wall painted with a mural of Olympic champion Usain Bolt, at the Jamaica Military Museum and Library at Up Park Camp, headquarters of the Jamaica Defense Force in Kingston, September 13, 2014. The 12-foot section of the wall was given to Bolt in 2009 by the city of Berlin after the runner broke world records in the 100 and 200 meter finals of the World Athletics Championships in that city. (Photo by Gilbert Bellamy/Reuters)

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Kingston, Jamaica

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A woman walks by a piece of the Berlin Wall near the European Parliament in Brussels October 31, 2014. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

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European Parliament in Brussels

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A section of the Berlin Wall is surrounded by a display in the Cold War exhibition at the Royal Air Force Museum in Cosford, England, October 14, 2014. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)

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The Royal Air Force Museum in Cosford, England

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Segments of the Berlin Wall, which are for sale, are seen at a storage yard in Teltow, south of Berlin October 29, 2014. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

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Teltow, Germany

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A segment of the Berlin Wall is seen in a park in central Sofia October 29, 2014. (Photo by Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)

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Central Sofia

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A piece of the Berlin Wall is seen in a park in central Moscow October 8, 2014. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

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Moscow, Russia

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Three sections of the Berlin wall are seen in Plaza Berlin in Guatemala City, September 10, 2014. (Photo by Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters) 13

Plaza Berlin in Guatemala City

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A staff member walks past a section of the Berlin Wall outside the German School in Richmond,

London, October 14, 2014. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)

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Richmond, London

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A man walks near a piece of the Berlin Wall in La Defense business district in Courbevoie

October 16, 2014. The municipality of Courbevoie bought the piece of wall for 300.000

Deutsche Marks in 1990. The segment shows a painting of Kiddy Citny. (Photo by Charles

Platiau/Reuters)

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La Defense business district in Courbevoie, France

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People walk near a piece of the Berlin Wall in Porte de Versailles in Paris October 20, 2014. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters) 16

Porte de Versailles in Paris, France

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A piece of the Berlin Wall is displayed at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California September 17, 2014. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)

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Richard Nixon Presidential Library, California

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A woman walks past a piece of the Berlin Wall, which was from Potsdamer Platz, in a park outside the European Parliament in Brussels October 31, 2014. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

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The European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium

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A piece of the Berlin Wall is seen in the front yard of the Taiwan Foundation for

Democracy in Taipei October 20, 2014. (Photo by Pichi Chuang/Reuters)

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The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy in Taipei

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A section of the Berlin Wall stands in the carpark of the German Club in

Canberra, Australia October 15, 2014. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)

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Canberra, Australia

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A section of the Berlin Wall is displayed at the Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham, England, October 16, 2014. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters) 21

Gillingham, England

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A segment of the Berlin Wall, which was painted by French-born, Berlin-based artist Thierry Noir, is pictured at The Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War in Culver City, California

September 18, 2014. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) 22

Culver City, California

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A piece of the Berlin Wall is seen in a garden at the Alexander Von Humboldt German

School in Mexico City, September 10, 2014. (Photo by Edgard Garrido/Reuters) 23

The Alexander Von Humboldt German School in Mexico City

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A segment of the Berlin Wall is seen on the main campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California September 18, 2014. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

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Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California

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A piece of the Berlin Wall is seen at Chapman University in Orange,

California September 17, 2014. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)

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Orange, California

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A segment of the Berlin Wall is seen at the Foreign Ministry in San Jose September 11, 2014. (Photo by Juan Carlos/Reuters)

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The Foreign Ministry in San Jose, California

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A piece of the Berlin Wall is seen at a garden inside San Martin palace, headquarters of Argentina's Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires September 12, 2014. (Photo by Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)

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Argentina’s Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires

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A child sweeps in front of four pieces of the Berlin Wall at Teguh Ostenrik's workshop in Pondok Petir

village in Depok, Indonesia's West Java province October 22, 2014. Indonesia sculptor Teguh Ostenrik

bought four original sections of the Berlin wall to Indonesia in 1990. (Photo by Reuters/Beawiharta)

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A section of the Berlin Wall stands in front of St George's Cathedral in Cape Town October 28, 2014. The section was presented to former South African President Nelson Mandela in the 1990s. (Photo by Mike Hutchings/Reuters)

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St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa

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A woman takes a photograph of her husband in front of part of the Berlin Wall at Berlin square in Seoul October 17, 2014. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters) 30

Berlin square in Seoul, South Korea

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A woman runs past segments of the Berlin Wall at Berlin Park in Madrid November 2, 2014. (Photo by Susana Vera/Reuters)

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Berlin Park, Madrid, Spain

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London, England

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A section of the Berlin Wall is seen at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California, September 16, 2014. (Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) 33

The Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California

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Recalling the Berlin Wall West Berlin citizens hold a vigil atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on November 10, 1989, the day after the East German government opened the border between East and West Berlin. (Reuters/David Brauchli)

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On August 13, 1961, East Germany closed its borders with the west. Here, East German soldiers set up barbed wire barricades at the border separating East and West Berlin. West Berlin citizens watch the work. (AP Photo) 35

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A young East Berliner erects a concrete wall that was later topped by barbed wire at a sector border in the divided city August 18, 1961. East German police stand guard in background as another worker mixed cement. (AP Photo)

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Tracks of the Berlin elevated railroad stop at the border of American sector of Berlin in this air view on August 26, 1961. Beyond the fence, communist-ruled East Berlin side, the tracks have been removed. (AP Photo/Worth)

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Formidable concrete walls took shape at the seven crossing points between East and West Berlin on December 4, 1961. The new walls were seven feet high and five feet thick. Only small passages for traffic were left open. In center of the Bornholmer Bridge (French/Russian sector border), behind steel tank traps, a big sign showing the East German emblem hammer and compass. (AP Photo/Worth) 38

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East German VOPO, a quasi-military border policeman using binoculars, standing guard on one of the bridges linking East and West Berlin, in 1961. (Library of Congress) 39

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Under the eye of a communist "people's policeman", East Berlin workers with a power shovel destroy one of a number of cottages and one-family houses along a sparsely settled stretch of the east-west Berlin boundary in October of 1961. (National Archives) 40

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A young girl in the Eastern Sector looks through barbed wire into Steinstucken, Berlin, in October of 1961. (National Archives)

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Blocking the church - Two East Germans work on a huge 15 foot wall, placing pieces of broken glass on the top to prevent East Berliners from escaping. (AP-Photo/Kreusch) 42

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A refugee runs during an attempt to escape from the East German part of Berlin to West Berlin by climbing over the Berlin Wall on October 16, 1961. (AP Photo)

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Picture taken in June 1968 of the Berlin Wall and East Berlin (Soviet sector). (AFP/Getty Images)44

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Typical of East Berlin measures to halt the escape of refugees to the west are these bricked-up windows in an apartment house along the city's dividing line October 6, 1961. The house, on the South side of Bernauerstrasse, is in East Berlin. (AP Photo)

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Aerial view of Berlin border wall, seen in this 1978 picture. (AP Photo)

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East German border guards carry away a refugee who was wounded by East German machine gun fire as he dashed through communist border installations toward the Berlin Wall in 1971. (AP Photo) 47

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East Berlin laborers work on "Death Strip" which communist authorities created on their side of the border in the divided city on October 1, 1961. A double barbed wire fence marks the border, with West Berlin at right. In this view of the area laborers level rubble of houses which, just days before, stood on the site close to the border. Buildings along the 25-mile dividing line were evacuated and razed by Berlin reds to eliminate one means of escape used by East Berliners to jump to the west. (AP Photo) 48

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Dying Peter Fechter is carried away by East German border guards who shot him down when he tried to flee to the west in this August 17, 1962 photo. Fechter was lying 50 minutes in no-man's land before he was taken to a hospital where he died shortly after arrival. (AP Photo)

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View from top of the old Reichstag building of the Brandenburg Gate, which marks the border in this divided city. The semi-circled wall around the Brandenburg Gate was erected by East German Vopos on November 19, 1961. (AP Photo/Worth) 50

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The Brandenburg Gate is shrouded in fog as a man looks from a watchtower over the Wall to the Eastern part of the divided city on November 25, 1961. The tower was erected by the West German police to observe the Inner-German border. (AP Photo/Heinrich Sanden Sr.) 51

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East German border guard Conrad Schumann leaps into the French Sector of West Berlin over barbed wire on August 15, 1961. (Peter Leibing/Library of Congress) 52

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West German construction workers have a chat in West Berlin, April 18, 1967 beside the wall separating the city. (AP Photo/Edwin Reichert) 53

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East German border guards carry away a 50 year old refugee, who was shot three times by East German border police on September 4, 1962, as he dashed through communist border installations and tried to climb the Berlin wall in the cemetery of the Sophien Church. (AP Photo)

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A woman and child walk beside a section of the Berlin Wall. (AP Photo)55

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Reverend Martin Luther King, American civil rights leader, invited to Berlin by West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, visits the wall on September 13, 1964, at the border Potsdamer Platz in West Berlin. (AP Photo) 56

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A mass escape of 57 people in October 1964 from East Berlin through a tunnel to the cellar of a former bakery in "Bernauer Street", West Berlin. Picture of the tunnel exit. (AP Photo)

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A graffiti-covered section of the wall close to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1988. Sign reads: "Attention! You are now leaving West Berlin" (AP Photo)

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(1 of 3) Two East Berliners jump across border barriers on the Eastern side of border checkpoint at Chaussee Street in Berlin in April of 1989. They were stopped by gun wielding East German border guards and arrested while trying to escape into West Berlin. People in the foreground, still in East Berlin, wait for permits to visit the West. (AP Photo/Klostermeier) 59

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(2 of 3) Two East Berlin refugees are taken away by border guards after a thwarted escape attempt at Berlin border crossing Chausseestreet, in this April 1989 picture. (AP Photo)

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(3 of 3) An East Berlin border guard, cigarette in mouth, points his pistol to the scene where two East Germans were led away after failing to escape to the west at Berlin border crossing Chausseestrasse. Eyewitnesses reported the guard also fired shots. (AP Photo) 61

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A general view of the overcrowded East Berlin Gethsemane Church on October 12, 1989. About 1,000 East Germans took part in a prayer service here for imprisoned pro-democracy protesters. The church was the focus of protests in the final days of the wall. (AP Photo) 62

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An unidentified East German border guard gestures toward some demonstrators, who who threw bottles on the eastern side of newly-erected barriers at the Checkpoint Charlie crossing point on October 7, 1989. (AP Photo/Rainer Klostermeier) 63

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East and West Berliners mingle as they celebrate in front of a control station on East Berlin territory, on November 10, 1989, during the opening of the borders to the West following the announcement by the East German government that the border to the West would be open. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck) 64

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East Berliners get helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall which divided the city since the end of World War II, near the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) on November 10, 1989. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck) 65

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A man hammers away at the Berlin Wall on November 12, 1989 as the border barrier between East and West Germany was torn down. (AP Photo/John Gaps III)

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West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early November 11, 1989 as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and West Berlin, near the Potsdamer Square. (Gerard Malie/AFP/Getty Images)

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East and West German Police try to contain the crowd of East Berliners flowing through the recent opening made in the Berlin wall at Potsdamer Square, on November 12, 1989. (Patrick Hertzog/AFP/Getty Images) 68

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Decades later, the Berlin Wall is a memory, pieces of it scattered around the world. Here, some original pieces of the wall are displayed for sale at the city of Teltow near Berlin, on November 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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