That includes Democrats here! Berlin mayor criticizes nostalgia for Berlin Wall

Berlin mayor criticizes nostalgia for Berlin Wall | Reuters

By Erik Kirschbaum

BERLIN | Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:39pm EDT

(Reuters) - Berlin's mayor said on Saturday he was appalled that some Germans were nostalgic for the Berlin Wall and supported a newly fashionable leftist view that there were legitimate reasons for building it in 1961.