Amateur historian, Christian Bormann, has broken a 20-year vow of silence and revealed a stretch of the original Berlin Wall that he has been keeping a secret for so long.
In the years that followed the Berlin wall's demise, it was thought that any trace of the once looming structure that sought to divide East and West Germany had been eradicated - but this amateur historian secretly knew otherwise.
Growing up in the then 'east of the wall' region of Pankow, Berlin, history enthusiast Christian Bormann was no stranger the towering partition that once physically - and ideologically - divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
But it wasn't until ten years after the 'Berliner Mauer's' apparent demolition that the now 37-year-old stumbled across a familiar sight in rural northern Berlin, on the district boundary between Panko and Reinickendorf.
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After three years of covert research to verify the seemingly forgotten structure's true identity, Christian identified the part of the 300ft segment to contain part of the original, hastily erected barricade of brick and barbed wire, before more rigorous defenses were put into place in the 1980s.
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