A bike tour along the Berlin Wall ‘Death Strip’, 30 years after it fell. What does the Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' look like today? David Walsh cycles it . Tuesday 29 October 2019 20:28 GMT.

While the Wall stood, the zone between East and West Berlin was a potentially deadly space. But since the end of the Cold War, it has mostly stood barren. Now a Dutch landscape architect wants to ...

When the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, it meant the end of the only world I had ever known. ... death-strip side. The border guards looked on as more of us climbed down.

You can see the death strip. You can see one watchtower. SCHMITZ: Gunter Schlusche, project manager for the Berlin Wall Memorial, points to the last piece of the wall preserved as it once stood ...

While the West's eyes were focused on Walter Ulbricht's ugly Berlin wall, a greater, ... West Germans call the cleared area der Todesstreifen—the death strip. Any German.

The real red-letter day had been November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall was first breached. ... the Death Strip has become a green belt of parks and overgrown lots that feel like the countryside.

For nearly 30 years, the Berlin Wall divided Germany’s biggest city in two, ... Sandwiched between was a no-man’s-land (“death strip”) between 10 and 50 yards wide, ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Remaining segments of the Berlin Wall provide a reminder of the impact this 30-year-long division had on peoples' lives. ... (with both sides of its Wall and death strip all preserved intact).

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany’s biggest city in two, ... Sandwiched between was a no-man’s-land (“death strip”) between 10 and 50 yards wide, ...