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At the Brandenburg Gate border opening

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December 22 1989
Berlin, Unter den Linden
Created By: Peter R. Asche

License: Creative Commons License

Pedestrians waiting at Otto-Grotewohl Strasse (now known as Wilhelm Strasse) for the opening of the new border crossing at Brandenburg Gate, festively opened on 22 December 1989. Hundreds of camera teams and more than 100,000 people attended the border opening ceremony led by the then Bundeskanzler, Helmut Kohl and the East German premier, Hans Modrow.

Depicts

banner (flag), barrier grid, border guard, child, crowd, opening of the border, street sign, vehicle, youth

Places

Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden

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Wir sind / eine / Fam[i]lie

Otto-Grotewohl-Straße

Jacobs / Mein Aroma! / ...wunderbar.

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