Within just one day in August 1961 the tenants of the southern side of Bernauer str. were deprived of the possibility to walk across their own street: the street and the houses across it were from now on in West Berlin. Many started jumping out of their windows to the West, some of them lost their lives. A bit later the faсades of these houses were mured and tenants resettled. Afterwards, due to construction of the second, rear wall and the “death strip“ between the walls, these houses were exploded. The most fortified version of the Berlin Wall made of concrete 3,5-meter blocks was introduced in 1975 and is known as “the fourth generation wall“ or “the Wall 75“. Several luxury houses were constructed today on the abandoned site of the former “death strip“, but one part remained unbuilt and the Wall 75 untouched: an open exhibition reminds visitors of the former division of the street into two different Berlins...