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Image of the Neue Wache in 1945, after World War II. In the image, it is evident that the building received damage from the bombings in Berlin. Photo was taken by Otto Donath

Inside is a flame of eternal fire of the memorial to the "Victims of Fascism and Militarism" on September 30, 1970.

The exterior of the Neue Wache after its restoration.

The dedication ceremony for the memorial inside the Neue Wache with Käthe Kollwitz's sculpture "Mother with Dead Son," or Pietà. Chancellor Helmut Kohl is accompanied by Rom Herzog, Henning Voscherau, Richard von Weizäcker, and Rita Süssmuth.

The interior of the Neue Wache, showing the Käthe Kollwitz sculpture, 2005

The controversy that accompanied the ceremony on November 14, 1993 is documented in the article published in the New York Times.

At the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, the original bronze statuette is part of the collection.

Closing of the border between the two parts of Berlin. Photo taken at the Brandenburg Gate.

The Holocaust monument in Berlin, photo from October 30, 2005.

East and West Germany converge at the newly created opening in the Berlin Wall after a crane removed a section of the structure beside the Brandenburg Gate.