European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Heinz Joachim schoettes Deutsche Presse Agenter pieces of the Berlin Wail can be found ,. Costa Rica and other far Flung places but tourists in Berlin must look hard to find traces of the anti fascist Barrier Quot As East Germany used to Call it. Only minutes after officials of the defunct Cerman democratic Republic announced on nov. 9,1989, that citizens penned up for 40 years could pass through the Wall out came the hammers and pick axes. Overjoyed East germans smashed hundreds of holes in the bricks and coping of the Wall which symbolized More than anything else the cold War division of East and West. Later the East German government organized the demolition and Sale of the Wall which was erected on aug. 13,1961. Segments  12-foot-High Concrete Barrier were sold around the world. Not every Wall relic proved a moneymaker. Many of the former Border installations including the squat watchtowers and Barrack buildings along the route were hauled Down. Pulverized into Pebble sized rubble they now form the Bedrock of new roads All across the five Eastern German states. The building of the Wall came 33 years ago in the Early. Hours of the morning when police and members of workers militia led by the late Erich Honecker who went on to become East German state and party Leader unspoiled reels of barbed wire to Seal off the Eastern part of Berlin from the capitalist Western half. Millions of people around the world saw televised pictures of the Wall being built. Viewers saw cranes and trucks heaving huge slabs of Concrete into place and the windows and doors of buildings directly along its path being blocked off. After the dust had settled Berlin was Cut in half by a Barrier measuring 99 Miles from end to end and West Berlin was reduced to being an enclave inside East Germany. East German officials lauded the Wall As an Quot anti fascist protective Barrier Quot which represented a Quot great contribution toward securing  former German president Richard von Weizsacker called it Quot a rejection of humanity in  East Germany built the Wall to Stop the exodus of citizens who wanted to live in the More prosperous = West. Before it was built the two systems had coexisted albeit uneasily. But searchlights guard dogs and an army of guards could t Stop anguished East germans trying to escape to Freedom. Many of them made it to the West but 80 were killed while trying to breach the Wall. The last person was killed along the Berlin Wall in february 1989. Peering Over the somber Structure used to be obligatory for every visitor to West Berlin. Tourists often Shook their Heads in disbelief As they glimpsed potsdamer Platz a former Busy Square in the Center of the City reduced to a grim no Man s land by the Quot longest Concrete Wall in the  the Best places now to see a Section of the Berlin Wall Are at the East Side gallery a three Quarter mile Spray painted stretch in the Kreuzberg District the Nieder Kirchner Street near the City s parliament in Bernauer Street and at the invalid Friedhof a cemetery. Distributed by scrupps Howard news service Berli tourists must look hard to find traces of Wall former Bast German guards were photographed As segments of the Wall were removed in november 1989