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 ...

It was constructed in just two weeks, initially as a makeshift barbed wire and concrete block wall ... click through and be reminded of how quickly the Berlin Wall went up, and the way it cut ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact of the Wall on international relations Test your knowledge In the late 1950s, issues around Berlin sparked off one of the ...