Art group removes Berlin Wall memorial in border protest
Centre for Political Beauty says it took white crosses to highlight hypocrisy of fortifying borders while celebrating fall of another
Philip Oltermann in Berlin
For the past 10 years, 14 white crosses in the heart of Berlin have marked the lives of those who died trying to cross from east to west. Over the weekend, they disappeared, replaced with empty black metal frames and a note: “There’s no thinking going on here.”