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Berlin Wall, Germany, 2025. Its construction began on 13 August 1961, and it fell on 9 November 1989. The government of the German Democratic Republic, (GDR) built this barrier, more than 150 km long, to completely isolate East Berlin from the rest of the GDR. Section of the Wall located on Niederkirchnerstraße (Niederkirchnerstrasse), designated a historic monument in 1990. It belongs to the collection of historical remains of the Topography of Terror Documentation Center. All traces of destruction have been preserved along the 200 metres of this section of the Wall, which marked the border between the districts of Mitte (East Berlin) and Kreuzberg (West Berlin). In the background stands the Reich Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium, RLM) building, a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933-1945). It was built between February 1935 and August 1936. Since 1999, houses the Federal Ministry of Finance.