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Parents hold their babies over the Berlin Wall so their grandparents can say hello
The Berlin Wall didn’t magically appear overnight. It was a painstakingly long process to raise it from barbed wire between West and East Germany to an actual concrete wall separating family members, friends, and colleagues. Yet straight from the start, everyone had to stay on their side. And if the grandparents happen to be on the other side of the wall, the only chance to see their grandkids was to get the parents to lift them high. At this stage words were still travelling relatively freely.