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This tower located in East Berlin was built in 1970. The DDR didn't have the technology and called in Western entreprises from RFA and Sweden to contruct it. Some German people call it the finger of Walter Ulbricht the first Chief of the Communist Parti in DDR some other people call it the "Revenge of God and of the Pope" because when the sun reaches its top under a specific angle its reflection appear like a larges cross of light. Aerial picture taken by Alain Guillou from an helicopter on October 9, 1987

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