The Berlin Wall ran right behind the Reichstag, which accounts for the Mitte area’s multiple memorials in honour of those who died trying to escape across it. Near the northeastern corner of the building, the Gedenkstätte Weisse Kreuze (White Crosses Memorial) consists of seven white crosses placed here in 1971 right where the Wall ran into the Spree. Across the river, in the basement of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders Haus, a Wall installation by Ben Wagin features original segments of the Wall, each painted with a year and the number of people killed at the Wall in that year. Enter from the Schiffbauerdamm riverwalk, and if doors are closed, sneak a peak through the big window.
