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  • It was almost completely deleted. Hard to find still some parts of it.
  • Anyway don't forget most people in Europe are deeply missing that border and most people in Europe regret deeply that the wall came down. Margaret Thatcher and the whole political class in Britain and the whole people in Britain as well as Francois Mitterand and the French politics were full of deepest grief about the fall of this border. Both countries would have done anything to keep that border for ever.
  • It pretty much dissolved. Pieces of it were sold to tourists and nobody seemed to think it was important to keep it there.
  • "The border fortifications were progressively torn down and eventually abandoned in the months following its opening. Dozens of new crossings were opened by February 1990, and the guards no longer carried weapons or made much effort to check travellers' passports. The guards' numbers were rapidly reduced; half were dismissed within five months of the opening. On 1 July 1990 the border was abandoned and the Grenztruppen were officially abolished; all but 2,000 of them were dismissed or transferred to other jobs. The Bundeswehr gave the remaining border guards and other ex-NVA soldiers the task of clearing the fortifications, which was completed only in 1994. The scale of the task was immense, involving both the clearing of the fortifications and the rebuilding of hundreds of roads and railway lines. A serious complication was the presence of mines along the border. Although the 1.4 million mines laid by the GDR were supposed to have been removed during the 1980s, it turned out that 34,000 were unaccounted for. A further 1,100 mines were found and removed following reunification at a cost of more than DM 250 million, in a programme that was not concluded until the end of 1995. The border clearers' task was aided unofficially by German civilians from both sides of the former border who scavenged the installations for fencing, wire and blocks of concrete to use in home improvements. Much of the fence was sold to a West German scrap-metal company. Environmental groups undertook a programme of re-greening the border, planting new trees and sowing grass seeds to fill in the clear-cut area along the line." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border "Not all segments of the wall were ground up as the wall was being torn down. Many segments have been given to various institutions around the world since its fall. They can be found for instance in presidential and historical museums, lobbies of hotels and corporations, at universities and government buildings." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

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