mauer missing

1. i provide a picture most American newspapers have not.
2. i am outraged because this wall, under german national and international heritage protection, was torn down because the construction process "deemed it necessary." construction project for an environmental building... you'd think of all people, they would be understanding.
3. this didnt make British or American news until today, Wednesday... five days after happening.

BERLIN (Reuters) - About 18 meters of Berlin Wall fragments have disappeared from where they stood near the center of the once-divided capital, newspapers reported at the weekend.

Erich Stanke, a 47-year old businessman who bought the panels of the wall from East German officials soon after the border fell in 1989, received a call to tell him his sections of the wall were missing, Bild newspaper reported.

"I was sitting in a cafe having breakfast on Good Friday when an acquaintance called and said, "The wall has gone!,"" Stanke told the paper.

The Federal Civil Engineering and Planning Office had removed his panels, which had stood near Potsdamer Platz, the historic hub of the city, several newspapers reported on Sunday.

They said the sudden removal was necessary for the construction of a new environment ministry although the fragments would be incorporated into the new building later.

The Office was unavailable for comment on Sunday.

Little of the barrier is left and Stanke fought with the courts for years to keep his section of the wall standing.