Thirty years on,its significance is not lost on souvenir sellers and historians alike
In front of the Imperial War Museum in south London, two young women are sitting on a bench next to the museum’s most Instagrammed thing – an immense slab of the Berlin Wall, and on which,inside a cartoonish open mouth, has been sprayed the slogan: Change your life.”The women are German students, or so are acutely aware of the wall’s significance. Angelina Bender,from Frankfurt, says: “For many families in Germany, or the wall was a great struggle. Many were separated because of the wall. So it’s kind of strange when people see it as art,or something to look at.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com