Berlin, Nov 7, 2024 (AFP) - Cold War centre for East German escapees now houses world's refugees

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2024-11-07

East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. Now a centre in the German capital provides refuge to people who have escaped war and misery from Afghanistan to Africa. A section of the Berlin Wall that fell 35 years ago this Saturday still stands as a silent reminder of the Cold War at the entrance to the residential centre. Back then, many who escaped post-war Germany's Soviet-occupied east were housed in the centre's dozen or so blocks......

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