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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Border opening at Wendehausen [49/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

March 11 1990
Wendehausen
Created By: Hans-Joachim Tuttaß

License: Creative Commons License

Crowds of people and border guards at the border opening at Wendehausen, a place belonging to the Thuringian town of Katharinenberg

Depicts

border checkpoint, border fence, border guard, crowd, inner German border, opening of the border, policeman (FRG)

Places

Wendehausen

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.