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The open-air Domino Gallery forms a 1.5 km long line that maneuvers its way [...]]]> What was ripped down two decades ago has been put back up in style. The city of Berlin has recreated the Berlin Wall with 1,000 oversized dominos that will be toppled over on November 9th in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall.

The open-air Domino Gallery forms a 1.5 km long line that maneuvers its way around the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament, and the Brandenburg Gate – the site where East Germans rushed across the wall into West Berlin when it fell.

But constructing this mock wall took just as much work and manpower, if not more, than the original wall that went up ever so quickly in 1961.

15,000 participants from over 20 countries took part in painting the giant dominos that are 2.5m high and 1m wide. 40 trucks were needed to transport them in and around Berlin–and it took 26,000 km worth of travels just to get them into place.

The first domino will be tipped over tonight by the former Polish president, Lech Walesa.

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In the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Turkish migrants were largely over looked by the government and targeted by radicals, as Germany struggled to reunite.

What does November 9th mean to Berlin’s Turkish community 20 years on? Marco Woldt investigates…

Turkiyemspor Berlin is a football and project aimed at encouraging greater integration from the Turkish-German community. The Berlin Project checked out a local derby while interviewing the club’s president about how the wall coming down affected Turks. Here’s some of the shots from the game.

Twenty years after the fall of the wall many former East Germans are longing for what once was, but is no more a sentiment known as Ostalgie or nostalgia for the East.

Immediately after unification, East Germans were quick to embrace Western culture; today East German products like Vita Cola and the Trabant car are making a [...]]]>

Twenty years after the fall of the wall many former East Germans are longing for what once was, but is no more a sentiment known as Ostalgie or nostalgia for the East.

Immediately after unification, East Germans were quick to embrace Western culture; today East German products like Vita Cola and the Trabant car are making a resurgence thanks to Ostalgie.

Is it simply a case of East Germans celebrating some elements of their past? Or is a deeper lack of identification with Western values at the heart of this sentiment?

Germany is home to the largest Turkish community outside of Turkey. Many of these people or their families arrived in the Germany in the 1960s, only a few years after the wall was constructed.

German reunification, which began with the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 and officially ended eleven months later, raised dormant questions of German as a [...]]]>

Germany is home to the largest Turkish community outside of Turkey. Many of these people or their families arrived in the Germany in the 1960s, only a few years after the wall was constructed.

German reunification, which began with the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 and officially ended eleven months later, raised dormant questions of German as a single nation, and caused the presence of the Turks to be debated and re-examined. Learning about Berlin’s Turkish population is important in making sense of the twenty years since the wall fell, as well as the time while it was still intact, both politically and physically.

Marcus Gilroy-Ware photographed a selection of delights from the Turkish market in Berlin’s Kreutzberg district.

Alex interviewed one of the protesters to find out more.