The Go Beyond Borders Project is an initiative of Heimat Berlin and CNN International in conjunction with Berlin Tape Artist El Bocho for the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
40 km of Go Beyond Borders tape was produced to mark the original position of the Berlin Wall and 8 Street Art Installations told heroic stories of those who conquered the divide between East and West Berlin.
The action also marks the launch of CNN’s new International slogan: Go Beyond Borders.
The Beyond Borders team wish to thank the City of Berlin, the Wall AG, the Marriott Hotel, The Deutsche Bahn and Axel Springer Publishing for their support in this project.
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When I was 14 years old, I made a trip around Europe. All the trip has been registered in the Super 8mm format movie which has been converted to MPEG1 in the year 2000 so that it could fix in a 70 minutes VideoCD. During the trip I visited Berlin and saw well near the famous Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. The longer “inner German border” demarcated the remainder of the East-West German border between the two states. Both borders were part of the Iron Curtain. The wall separated East Berlin and West Berlin for 28 years, from the day construction began on August 13, 1961 until it was dismantled in 1989, and was considered to be a longtime symbol of the Iron Curtain.
Hötensleben is a small town around 15km to the south of Helmstedt just inside the border of Middle Saxony. No trouble getting there today but before 19 November 1989 it was much more difficult.
This was one of the standard East/West Berlin crossings: the S-Bahn Friedrichstrasse station. The station was in East Berlin and was itself divided in half – one part being the end station of an eastern line, the other part being the end station of a line going to West Berlin. To walk from the “eastern” to the “western” part of the station you had to go through the passport and customs controls, obviously. On the “western” part of the station one could purchase things like cigarettes and alcohol duty-free (for western marks) so it was not uncommon to see drunks from West Berlin popping in at the Friedrichstrasse station buying some liquor and going back West (no control). That sort of folklore went way beyond James Bond, IMHO 
Explore the former inner German border with this animated video.
The former border crossing of “Bornholmer Strasse” was the first point of the “DDR” that opened it’s gates to the West on 9th of november 1989. Shortly after the news the first “Trabi” rolled into the west.