It is a porcelain insulator and piece of barbed stainless steel alarm wire from the Berlin Wall. I obtained it in 1999 when the wall was being dismantled. It makes me think about the time when ...

East German police and soldiers sealed the most frequently used border crossings between East and West Berlin with barbed wire. Soviet troops began to replace the wire with a concrete wall.

Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now 1,800km ... which witnessed 1.8m migrants flee to Europe. The barbed wire and steel column fence, which spans Hungary's border ...