Last November marked 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
For decades, the wall divided communist East Germany from the capitalist democracy in Germany’s West.
When you go to Berlin today, there’s almost no trace of the wall, as almost all of it was demolished in the 1990s.
But one building which speaks to Australia’s connection to East Germany is still standing – the former Australian Embassy to East Germany.
It’s a modular, brutalist building, built by a state-run collective who designed all 135 embassies in what was once East Berlin.
Thomas Fiel, architect and specialist in East German architecture, gives Georgia Moodie a tour of the building.
Georgia has just finished a two-part series for The History Listen about Australia’s relationship with East Germany during the Cold War. You can listen to it here and here
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