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Celebrating crowds as seen from a Trabi

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 9 - 10 1989
Berlin, between Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstraße
Created By: Fumiko Matsuyama

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

Exhibition theme: The Border Opens

Depicts

crowd, joy, night, November 9, 1989, Trabant (car)

Context

fall of the Berlin Wall

Places

Kurfuerstendamm

Related

Original Caption

"I was totally oblivious of what was happening around me during the day of 9 November 1989. It was only later, in the evening, when I was called and asked about what was going on in the city that I went out to have a look. The atmosphere throughout the city was euphoric. I approached some strangers in a Trabant car who gave me a lift to the border in Invaliden Straße. From there I walked to East Berlin – and didn't need to change any money or get a visa."