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After the Berlin wall: Europe 20 years on

Collectors leave no stone unturned

By Chris Bryant in Berlin

Published: November 8 2009 17:51 | Last updated: November 8 2009 17:51

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the desire to own a concrete reminder of the capital’s painful, divided past shows little sign of abating.

In a warehouse under the flightpath from Tegel airport in west Berlin, Volker Pawlowski is busy turning pieces of the wall into chunks of tourist kitsch.

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