A picture taken 11 November 1989 shows a West Berliner preparing to hand over a FRG flag to East German Vopo policemen through a portion of the fallen Berlin Wall near the Brandenbourg Gate. Two days before, Gunter Schabowski, the East Berlin Communist party boss, declared that starting from midnight, East Germans would be free to leave the country, without permission, at any point along the border, including the crossing-points through the Wall in Berlin. As the 45th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall nears, a row has broken out about the still unknown number of people who were shot while trying to scale communism's ultimate symbol. Researchers said they have confirmed beyond a doubt 125 cases where people were killed while trying to make it across the wall that went up overnight on August 13, 1961 and divided Berlin for the next 28 years.    AFP PHOTO    GERARD MALIE        (Photo credit should read GERARD MALIE/AFP/Getty Images)