Berlin commemorated the 48th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August. The wall, built by East German soldiers divided the city, and West Berlin, from the rest of East Germany, until it was pulled down in 1989.

At the Berlin Wall memorial centre on Bernauer Strasse a service was held at the Chapel of Reconciliation

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