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At Brandenburg Gate border crossing

OBJECT INFORMATION

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December 1989
Berlin, Brandenburg Gate
Created By: Freya Singer

License: Creative Commons License

People passing through the Brandenburg Gate border crossing, festively opened on 22 December 1989. Hundreds of camera teams and more than 100,000 people came to see Helmut Kohl and the East German premier, Hans Modrow, open the border.

Depicts

barrier grid, Berlin Wall (West), border guard, group of people, Wall graffiti

Places

Brandenburger Tor border crossing, Brandenburg Gate

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Gäste

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Original Caption

"To begin with there were still border checks and permits for people wanting to cross over from West to East Berlin."