Foreign minister reveals Germany trip

SAME GOALS: Taiwan’s and Germany’s memorial sites all aim to transform spaces of injustice to sites that advance human rights, said the minister’s guide, Sebastian Korner By Huang Ching-hsuan / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) in a Facebook post yesterday revealed that he had visited Germany last month and toured the Berlin Wall and the Berlin-Hohenschonhausen Memorial, among other sites.This year marks the 39th anniversary of the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, surpassing the 38-year duration of martial law, he wrote.Martial law was imposed on May 20, 1949, and lifted on July 15, 1987. Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung, right, poses for a photograph in front of the Berlin-Hohenschonhausen Memorial in Germany in an undated