BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany`s capital marked the 38th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall with a monument to a young man who was killed trying to cross from East Berlin to the West in 1962. The mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, unveiled a simple column commemorating the death of Peter Fechter, an 18-year-old who bled to death on a barbed-wire section of the Wall after border

guards shot him as he tried to flee to West Berlin. Communist East Germany began building the 3.6-metre-high cement barrier on August 13 1961 to separate the Russian-held eastern sector of the city from the western part administered by France, Britain and the United States. The city was initially divided by a barbed-wire fence but the barrier was turned into a 155-kilometre-long (96 miles) concrete wall with watch-towers, bunkers and walkways for guards. The wall, which encircled West Berlin, was breached on November 9, 1989 and subsequently destroyed. Only two kilometres of what was the world`s most famous border perimeter now remain standing.