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© Stéphane Compoint
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Graveyard of the house of the Invalides (Invalidenfriedhof). This site adjoins the bank of the Canal Spandau (Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal). From 1945, the route of the line as it was established by the Allied Powers, was crossing the waterway in the middle. With the reinforcement by the GDR of the border from Aug. 13, 1961, the cemetery Invalidenfriedhof was partially destroyed. Entire rows of graves had to make way to No Man's Land. Between 1973 and 1975, the latest graves were buried, landscaping destroyed. Similarly to the restricted area behind the wall background: the graves were leveled and the churchyard wall of brick was reinforced by a fence and built in the border layout. If a small portion of the cemetery survived these changes, it owes to the illustrious deceased military liberation wars of 1813/1815. A segment of the wall background, 180 meters long, and pierced in several places, and an even longer portion of the walkway, which cut the cemetery since 1975, were retained and filed in the historical heritage in 1990. The concrete wall segments was restored and repainted in 2003 with the patterns that were formerly on the east face of the wall background, that is to say white rectangles circled in gray.
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