Relics of the Cold War 25 Years On

Twenty-five years ago the first hammer blows struck the Berlin Wall. Today little remains of that international symbol of the Cold War, the political disaccord that almost pushed Europe to the brink of armed conflict between the late 1940s and the early 1990s.

Other relics from that tense time remain in place, though, untouched and largely unseen.

Dutch photographer Martin Roemers spent ten years documenting those relics—the now decaying testaments of an era that shaped the character of a continent.