Since August 13, 1961 till November 9, 1989 a 155 km long reinforced concrete wall extended through the entire Germany. Officially it was called “Anti-fascism Defensive Rampart”, but this reinforced border between GDR and FRG was better known as the Berlin Wall. After the beginning of dismantling of the construction in 1989, an idea was voiced to immortalize the memory of people who wanted to get over to the other side of the border and died on this obstacle. A competition was announced, and after long and heated debates, on August 13, 1998 a memorial was opened on Bernauerstrasse that includes an extant section of the wall, Documentation Centre and Reconciliation Chapel.