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At Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburg Gate border crossings

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

December 25 1989
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburg Gate
Duration: 02:39 min.
Created By: Joachim Grimm

License: Creative Commons License

Great crowds at both of the newly installed border crossings at Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburg Gate; "Mauerspechte" (Berlin Wall "woodpeckers") chip away at the still intact Berlin Wall between the two border crossings; closeups of the statue, "Der Rufer" ("The Caller") by Gerhard Marcks, on Straße des 17. Juni

Depicts

art, barrier grid, Berlin Wall (West), Berlin Wall woodpecker, border checkpoint, border guard, car, child, Christmas, crowd, guard room, handmade medium, queue, signboard, Trabant (car)

Places

Berlin Television Tower, Brandenburger Tor border crossing, Brandenburg Gate, Potsdamer Platz, Reichstag building, Siegessaeule (Berlin)

Text in image

Tiergartenstraße

Einreise

In memoria / fratilor romani / paine [pane] + libertate

Friede [3x]

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Original Caption

"At the time, I filmed everything randomly - as much as my minimal leisure time allowed."