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A watchtower in the former border strip in Berlin-Steinstücken

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

May 1 1990
Berlin-Steinstücken
Duration: ca 12 Min min.
Created By: Christine Krüger

License: Not Creative Commons

From the Set

Visiting the Wall, Steinstücken near Berlin, 1 May 1990

A watchtower in the partially cleared border strip in Berlin-Steinstücken (Wikipedia article, retrieved on January 6, 2010), one of the ten West-Berliner exclaves while the Wall was up; the inner Eastern wall in the background

Depicts

cleared border strip, group of people, inner-Eastern Wall, May Day, watchtower

Context

bicycle, construction of the Wall, fall of the Berlin Wall, hope, houses, leisure time, luckiness, May Day, savings bank, sorrow

Places

Berlin-Steinstücken

Related

Original Caption

"On May Day 1990 the former watchtower used by the National People's Army border control troops was particularly interesting because it offered a very good view of the so-called 'death strip' from the top."