BERLIN (CNN) -- Those who care deeply about freedom have strong emotions about the Berlin Wall. When the concrete dividing line between east and west was torn down in 1989, it gave hope that even the most entrenched tyrannies can be brought down.

There's little left of that wall now, to the dismay of many tourists who visit. Some Berliners are happy that way, believing that the horrors that happened there are too painful to remember. But others would like to see more recognition for the way things were -- if only to serve as a reminder that scores of people died trying to cross from east to west into freedom.

CNN's Berlin bureau chief Bill Delaney finds fragments of the wall, and talks to Berliners about its legacy.

Bill Delaney reports

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