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Families were torn apart. Buildings and entire communities were demolished to make way for the inner-German border. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, heralding in a new era in the country's history.

In their first-ever meeting, the interior ministers from East and West Germany agreed Wednesday to lift all controls on personal movements across the inner-German frontier before the summer ...