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At the beginning of May, the section of the Wall that ran between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate had to a large extent disappeared and the entire breadth of the street was uncovered once again. At the time it was still possible to follow the former course of the Wall – there were the odd fragments of the Wall here and there until they too finally completely disappeared in June and were replaced by a hoarding. A handful of curious onlookers still hung around, although not as many as before.
Back then I found it remarkable that one of the first things to be done was to restore the Brandenburg Gate – a telling sign of both its significance in German history and for German unification."
Dagmar Lipper (West Berlin)