Harry also spent more than an hour at the memorial to the Holocaust’s 6 million Jewish victims _ a field of 2,700 gray slabs, situated close to the capital’s signature Brandenburg Gate, which opened to the public in 2005. Researchers estimate that 136 people were killed while trying to cross the Berlin Wall between its building in 19, when East Germany opened its border.
It was accompanied by a handwritten message that read: “For all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of freedom. The 26-year-old prince laid a wreath at a memorial in the German capital’s Bernauer Strasse, which contains one of the few remaining sections of the Berlin Wall. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.īERLIN (AP) – Britain’s Prince Harry paid tribute Sunday to the people killed trying to escape communist East Germany across the Berlin Wall, and also made a private visit to the German capital’s Holocaust memorial.
Image by Nick Warner of Windsor, England. Prince Harry at the Garter Procession, June 16, 2008.
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