Red clinker stone wall at the north-east corner of the building.

The words that can be read on the bronze memorial plaque: 

“In memory of the struggle of the “Solidarność” for freedom and democracy and the contribution of Poland to the reunification of Germany and for a politically united Europe“

In  memory of the struggle of ‘Solidarność’ for freedom and democracy and Poland’s contribution to the reunification of Germany and a politically united Europe

The wall segment originally was part of the Gdansk shipyard. The workers’ leader, later Nobel Peace Prize winner and President Lech Wałęsa, is said to have climbed over this wall in August 1980 to get to his striking colleagues on the shipyard grounds in Gdansk.

The piece of the Gdansk Wall came to Berlin as a gift from the Polish parliament to the German Bundestag. In June 2009, it was solemnly unveiled as a Polish memorial at the Reichstag building in Berlin.