UPDATE A fragment of the Berlin Wall in the form of a monument has been unveiled in the town of Krzyżowa.

The ceremony was attended by the speaker of the Polish Sejm, Bronisław Komorowski and German Bundestag chairman Norbert Lammert.

This is the concluding event in the several-month series commemorating the peaceful revolution in Central and Eastern Europe that took place two decades ago.

Krzyżowa is of historical importance: during World War II the town was the base of the anti-Nazi “Krzyżowa Circle”, whose leader and land-owner, Helmut van Moltke, was executed for his beliefs.

On 12th November 1989, a symbolic Reconciliation Mass was held in the Silesian town, attended by the contemporary PM Taduesz Mazowiecki and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Since that time Krzyżowa has become a centre for Polish-German dialogue. (jb/ss)