Diese Platte steht derzeit im Friendship Park, nur wenige Meter vom Grenzzaun zwischen den USA und Mexiko entfernt.
Ursprünglich versuchten die Eigentümer, es 2019 an Donald Trumps Weißes Haus zu übergeben, um deutlich zu machen, dass Wände nicht funktionieren, aber das Geschenk wurde abgelehnt. Tijuana nahm es schließlich auf und installierte es im August 2023.
Auf der Plakette unten steht (übersetzt):
"Ein Stück der Berliner Mauer … erinnert uns daran, dass die Menschheit Grenzen überwindet … Möge dies eine Lektion für den Aufbau einer Gesellschaft sein, die Mauern niederreißt und Brücken der Solidarität baut."
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1qvhxex
Von Ph6222
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I lived in West Berlin and this is something which was a physical as well as psychological barrier. The white house rejecting is an insult to American soldiers too who lived behind it to protect Germans.
There is no such word as humanity in trump’s vocabulary.
At least the wall piece is in a place now where there is a chance that it is understood.
If they want Trump to accept it, they should just paint it gold.
For those who want to check sources, here is an article that also reports on this:
https://www.voanews.com/a/berlin-wall-relic-has-second-life-on-us-mexico-border/7252805.html
According to that article, the piece of wall was rejected during Trump’s first presidency and repurposed when a wall was build between Tijuana and San Diego under Biden (who had ordered to stop construction of Trump’s main wall but not of other, smaller projects).
The Berlin Wall was built to prevent its own citizens from fleeing the country, not to prevent foreign citizens from entering.
I hope I could help. Greetings from the former GDR.
I saw one given to the Philippines and it sits in Manila shielded with full glass. It can be found on google maps when you search “Berlin Wall Fragment 22”. Amazing and cool to see firsthand a piece of history and thoughtful of German government to break it off in pieces and distribute it to countries.
It fields poetic in a way given how awful border affairs are there 😅
Not a fan of the US administration but this is selective rage bait. This piece of the wall, which you conveniently posted one side of, is an inscribed political message to Donald Trump – a literal letter with his name on it. The US already has pieces of the wall memorialized. Why would a political statement be accepted and displayed, especially if that administration didn’t agree with its message (whether right or wrong)? lol
https://www.newsweek.com/berlin-wall-message-donald-trump-white-house-u-s-mexico-border-tour-1472460
Ok. Was this a gift from the German government or from a private citizen? Was the “gift” part of some open borders campaign?
There’s more to this than the headline.
Meanwhile Berlin is a living example of humanity transcending barriers.
But not in the positive sense.