A worker removes the clamp of a crane after removing a piece of the former Berlin Wall, now known as East Side Gallery, in Berlin March 1, 2013. Some 200 people protested against the controversial removal of parts of the former East German border fortification. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

A worker closes a newly installed gate after the removal of sections of an open air 0.8-mile painted stretch of the former Berlin Wall, known as the "East Side Gallery", in Berlin March 27, 2013. Developers plan to build luxury apartments close to the East Side Gallery, which is adorned with the work of artists such as Keith Haring and Gerald Scarfe, but builders had to stop tearing down the wall due to protests earlier this month. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

A man is seen through a hole in the former Berlin Wall at the corner of Wilhelmstrasse and Niederkirchner in Berlin March 4, 2013. Protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on March 1, 2013, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the Cold War. Most of the wall was pulled down or chiselled away after it was breached on November 9, 1989, when ecstatic crowds of East and West Germans surged through checkpoints and on to the wall, hacking bits off it and dancing on top of the structure that for so long had symbolised their division. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Drilling rigs (R) stand on a construction site for luxury apartments behind a 0.8 mile section of the former Berlin Wall, also known as the East Side Gallery, in Berlin March 27, 2013. Four segments of the wall were removed on Wednesday morning, almost a month after builders had stopped tearing down the wall due to protests. Developers plan to build luxury apartments close to the East Side Gallery, which is adorned with the work of artists such as Keith Haring and Gerald Scarfe. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST REAL ESTATE BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) 

A scale model of the Berlin Wall and a luxury apartment building, that investment firm Living Bauhaus plans to erect on the former death strip, is on display at the investor's showroom in Berlin March 6, 2013. Protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on Friday, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the Cold War. Most of the wall was pulled down or chiselled away after it was breached on November 9, 1989, when ecstatic crowds of East and West Germans surged through checkpoints and on to the wall, hacking bits off it and dancing on top of the structure that for so long had symbolised their division. This 1.3 km section of the wall features over 100 paintings by various artists and is known today as East Side Gallery. The scale model seen in the picture shows works by the French artist Thierry Noir. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) 

People stroll at the open air 0.8-mile painted section of the Berlin Wall known as the "East Side Gallery" in Berlin March 3, 2013. Developers plan to build luxury apartments close to the East Side Gallery, which is adorned with the work of artists such as Keith Haring and Gerald Scarfe, but builders had to stop tearing down the wall on Friday due to protests.REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION REAL ESTATE CITYSCAPE) 

A placard, left over from yesterday's protest, leans against the former Berlin Wall, now called East Side Gallery, in Berlin March 4, 2013. Protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on March 1, 2013, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the Cold War. Most of the wall was pulled down or chiselled away after it was breached on November 9, 1989, when ecstatic crowds of East and West Germans surged through checkpoints and on to the wall, hacking bits off it and dancing on top of the structure that for so long had symbolised their division. The placard reads: "Living on the death strip". The banner reads: "No one has the intention to erect luxury apartments," echoing the historic quote by East German leader Walter Ulbricht: "No one has the intention to erect a wall." REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS) 

A man looks through a gap in the former Berlin Wall, now called East Side Gallery, in Berlin March 4, 2013. Protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on March 1, 2013, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the Cold War. Most of the wall was pulled down or chiselled away after it was breached on November 9, 1989, when ecstatic crowds of East and West Germans surged through checkpoints and on to the wall, hacking bits off it and dancing on top of the structure that for so long had symbolised their division. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS) 

French artist Thierry Noir poses in front of his painting at the former Berlin Wall, now called East Side Gallery, in Berlin March 4, 2013. Protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on March 1, 2013, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the Cold War. Most of the wall was pulled down or chiselled away after it was breached on November 9, 1989, when ecstatic crowds of East and West Germans surged through checkpoints and on to the wall, hacking bits off it and dancing on top of the structure that for so long had symbolised their division. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS) 

A sign declaring this stretch of the former Berlin Wall now called East Side Gallery as a national heritage site, stands in front of a graffiti covered section of the wall in Berlin March 1, 2013. Over 200 protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on Friday, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the Cold War. Developers plan to build luxury apartments close to the open air East Side Gallery but builders had to stop tearing down the wall on Friday due to protests and local police said they had removed their machinery by late afternoon. The sign reads, "Erection of the wall: after 1961. Fall of the Wall: 9. November 1989. Paintings: February to September 1990. Refurbished in 2009". REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

A woman takes a picture of the former Berlin Wall at the corner of Wilhelmstrasse and Niederkirchner in Berlin March 4, 2013. Protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on March 1, 2013, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the Cold War. Most of the wall was pulled down or chiselled away after it was breached on November 9, 1989, when ecstatic crowds of East and West Germans surged through checkpoints and on to the wall, hacking bits off it and dancing on top of the structure that for so long had symbolised their division. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS) 

Chewing gums cover a segment of the former Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin March 4, 2013. Protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on March 1, 2013, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the Cold War. Most of the wall was pulled down or chiselled away after it was breached on November 9, 1989, when ecstatic crowds of East and West Germans surged through checkpoints and on to the wall, hacking bits off it and dancing on top of the structure that for so long had symbolised their division. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS) 

People take pictures at the open air 0.8-mile painted section of the Berlin Wall known as the "East Side Gallery" in Berlin March 3, 2013. Developers plan to build luxury apartments close to the East Side Gallery, which is adorned with the work of artists such as Keith Haring and Gerald Scarfe, but builders had to stop tearing down the wall on Friday due to protests.REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION REAL ESTATE CITYSCAPE TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A man enjoys a sunny day at the open air 0.8-mile painted section of the Berlin Wall known as the "East Side Gallery" in Berlin March 2, 2013. Developers plan to build luxury apartments close to the East Side Gallery, which is adorned with the work of artists such as Keith Haring and Gerald Scarfe, but builders had to stop tearing down the wall on Friday due to protests. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION REAL ESTATE CITYSCAPE) 

Berlin fashion designer Daniel Rodan (L) and models wearing designs he created in 2009 to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall attend a demonstration called "Don't touch the East Side Gallery" in Berlin March 2, 2013. Developers plan to build luxury apartments close to the East Side Gallery, an open air 0.8-mile painted section of the Berlin Wall which is adorned with the work of artists such as Keith Haring and Gerald Scarfe, but builders had to stop tearing down the wall on Friday due to protests. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST FASHION ENTERTAINMENT) 

Workers lift a piece of the former Berlin Wall, now known as East Side Gallery, in Berlin March 1, 2013. Some 200 people protested against the controversial removal of parts of the former East German border fortification. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW) 

People look at flowers placed at at a concrete barrier that is part of the former Berlin Wall border fortification at the memorial site in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin November 9, 2012. Berlin on Friday marks the 23rd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY CITYSPACE TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A sign marks the Berlin Wall in Berlin October 3, 2012. Wednesday marks the 22nd anniversary of German reunification, after decades of division into Soviet-controlled communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany in the west. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) 

A man plays the saxophone in front of the Berlin Wall in Berlin October 3, 2012. Wednesday marks the 22nd anniversary of German reunification, after decades of division into Soviet-controlled communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany in the west. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner (GERMANY - Tags: ANNIVERSARY POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Tourists walk in front of a segment of the graffiti painted wall at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, August 12, 2011. The German capital is preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, which was erected on August 13, 1961. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS) 

The repainted artwork "Doves of peace" by German artist Rosemarie Schinzler is pictured on a section of the former Berlin wall April 17, 2009. Artists this week began repainting the largest remaining section of Berlin Wall with the murals they created after the fall of the hated symbol of the Cold War almost 20 years ago. A 1,300 metre (4,265 ft) stretch of wall, the world's longest open-air art gallery, was decorated by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990, but has since been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists. The restoration work is expected to be completed in time for the 20-year anniversary in November of the fall of the wall which once divided communist East Berlin from capitalist west Berlin. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Restored segments of East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall are pictured in Berlin November 6, 2009. A 1,300 metres (4,265 ft) stretch of wall, the world's longest open-air art gallery, was decorated by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990, but has since been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists. The restoration work was completed in time for the 20-year anniversary in November of the fall of the wall which once divided communist East Berlin from capitalist west Berlin. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) 

A woman with an umbrella walks next to a mural of a restored segment of East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin November 4, 2009. A 1,300 metres (4,265 ft) stretch of wall, the world's longest open-air art gallery, was decorated by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990, but has since been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists. The restoration work was carried out for the 20-year anniversary in November of the fall of the wall which once divided communist East Berlin from capitalist west Berlin. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY POLITICS CITYSCAPE ANNIVERSARY IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) 

A general views shows restored segments of the East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin October 30, 2009. A 1,300 metres (4,265 ft) stretch of wall, the world's longest open-air art gallery, was decorated by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990, but has since been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists. The restoration work is expected to be completed in time for the 20-year anniversary in November of the fall of the wall which once divided communist East Berlin from capitalist west Berlin. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) 

Graffiti artists spray-paint a section of the former Berlin Wall at the Mauerpark (Wall park) in Berlin July 29, 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY POLITICS CITYSCAPE ANNIVERSARY) 

A woman writes onto the Berlin Wall, formerly the borderline between the East and West of Berlin July 14, 2009. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY POLITICS) 

A Berlin Wall souvenir is seen at the company of Volker Pawlowski, a 52-year-old businessman who runs his own Berlin Wall souvenir company, in Berlin April 17, 2009. Twenty years after the fall of the concrete barrier that divided Berlin in communist times, Pawlowski is still the go-to man for souvenir fragments. Germany's leaders are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall this year with emotional speeches in the run-up to a Nov. 9 commemoration, but Pawlowski, a German former construction worker, is pragmatic about the Cold War's most-hated symbol. His firm currently supplies around 90 percent of Wall relics to Berlin souvenir shops. To match feature GERMANY-WALL REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY IMAGES OF THE DAY POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Berlin Wall souvenirs are stored at the company of Volker Pawlowski, a 52-year-old businessman who runs his own Berlin Wall souvenir company, in Berlin April 17, 2009. Twenty years after the fall of the concrete barrier that divided Berlin in communist times, Pawlowski is still the go-to man for souvenir fragments. Germany's leaders are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall this year with emotional speeches in the run-up to a Nov. 9 commemoration, but Pawlowski, a German former construction worker, is pragmatic about the Cold War's most-hated symbol. His firm currently supplies around 90 percent of Wall relics to Berlin souvenir shops. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY POLITICS) 

A worker repaints the Berlin wall after a concrete restoration April 17, 2009. Artists this week began
repainting the largest remaining section of Berlin Wall with the murals they created after the fall of the hated symbol of the Cold War almost 20 years ago. A 1,300 metre (4,265 ft) stretch of wall, the world's longest open-air art gallery, was decorated by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990, but has since been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists. The restoration work is expected to be completed in time for the 20-year anniversary in November of the fall of the wall which once divided communist East Berlin from capitalist west Berlin. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY ENTERTAINMENT) 

A man on a bicycle passes a giant graffiti on the building's wall in Berlin October 28, 2006. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (GERMANY) 

The remains of the Berlin Wall placed as a tourist attraction and memorial site in Berlin October 7, 2004. Germany was divided between the capitalist west and the communist east. The wall stood for 29 years until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 when it was almost completely destroyed. REUTERS/Michael Dalder MAD 

Workers repair segments of the so called East Side Gallery, after the graffiti-painted segments were sandblasted, at the largest remaining part of the Berlin Wall, a mile long segment May 22. After the restoration artists will repaint the original graffiti on the wall. 

Tourists pass graffiti-painted segments of the Berlin Wall, with the dome of the Berlin cathedral (L) at rear, at the largest remaining part of the Berlin Wall, a mile long segment called East Side Gallery November 2. The 10th anniversary of the "fall" of the Berlin wall is coming up on November 9, 1999.

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West Berlin citizens continue their vigil atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate 11 November 1989.

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A young West Berliner rides his bike along a painted section of the Berlin Wall, West Berlin, Germany, 1986. The 166 km Wall provides a huge and colorful outdoor canvas for artists and graffiti writers. Reuters/Gaby Sommer