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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Handshake on Glienicke Bridge [43/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 1989
Potsdam, Glienicke Bridge border crossing
Created By: Dietmar Bührer

License: Creative Commons License

A West German duty officer and an East German border police officer shake hands on Glienicke Bridge, which was opened to East German citizens on 10 November 1989 for the first time since 1961.

Depicts

border guard, coat of arms of the German Democratic Republic, customs officer, eagle (heraldic animal), flower, man, two persons

Places

Glienicke Bridge border crossing

Text in image

Zoll

Other items in this set

Almost everyone knows to this day where he or she was on 9 November 1989. The joy at being suddenly granted the freedom to travel, also to West Germany, was immense. Each time a new border crossing was opened, people celebrated. In the same way, the removal of segments of the Wall and of border fence, as well as the reconstruction of roads between East and West became important events. Countless photographs and films taken in Berlin and at the inner-German border document these incidents as they occurred – thus preserving the good fortune of experiencing everything live for the family album.