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It's been nearly 40 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall but you can still buy pieces of it in the German capital as…

Are they genuine?

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it sealed the fate of East Germany.

People wasted no time and started hacking away at the monstrosity with hammers and chisels.

Those people chipping away at the former border barricade were known as "Mauerspechte," or wall woodpeckers.

By June 1990, most of the Berlin Wall had been taken care of by bulldozers.

Only a few sections of it have survived to this day; at the official Berlin Wall Memorial or the East Side Gallery, for…

Still, fragments of the Wall keep turning up in large amounts all over the city.

The Checkpoint Charlie Museum, souvenir stores and even hotels have thousands of pieces for sale.

Almost 40 years since the fall of the wall, supply of the concrete chunks — brightly painted, made into fridge magnets …

But, how can that be?

Could these pieces of rubble perhaps come from much less significant and historical origins?

Segments of Berlin Wall — 35 years after fall To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a …

Most of the pieces on sale are genuine, though, and he should know: His company is the main supplier of authentic piece…

He and his brother Sebastian run Urban Products Sacha Ltd.

in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf.

It's been a family business since 1992, when Sebastian Sacha's father-in-law secured a large number of fragments of the…

"We supply a large souvenir chain in Berlin; that's our main customer," Sacha says, "But we also ship pieces all over t…

" Most go to the US, UK and China.

There's also an exhibition that's been touring Europe since 2024 and is currently in Barcelona: "The Berlin Wall.

" Pieces of the wall, supplied directly from Reinickendorf, are sold alongside the exhibit.

Fragments of the wall have long been packaged and sold as souvenirs Image: Urban Products Sacha GmbH New color, old wal…

70), with a certificate of authenticity to confirm that the chunk of wall is in fact original.

The German parliament is even among the firm's customers.

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, some entrepreneurs saw the event as a business opportunity Image: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/…

"We've still got 40 to 45 sections of the wall in storage," says Sacha, "30 of those are still whole, 10 to 15 have alr…

" More pieces of this former 155-kilometer (96-mile) concrete barricade are scattered around the globe, too.

Over the years, many sections of it — in slabs 3.

2 meters wide — have been shipped all over the world, though the whereabouts of many remain a mystery.

"We can get more!" Julian Sacha says.

If they should ever need them, that is.

Over the past few years, demand has been dropping off.

That's why Urban Products has begun shifting its focus away from the concrete keepsakes.

The Berlin company's core business is slowly moving to vintage tin signs, Berlin key rings and other mementos.

This article was translated from German