Queue outside a branch of the Berliner Bank

Info

November 12 1989
Berlin, Hardenbergstraße
Created By: Gottfried Schenk

License: Not Creative Commons

From the Set

Queue outside a branch of the Berliner Bank where "Welcome Money" was disbursed.

"Begrüßungsgeld (German: welcome money) was, from 1970 until 29 December 1989, a gift from the government of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) to visitors from the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) as well as those from Poland able to prove their German ancestory." (Wikipedia: Begrüßungsgeld, retrieved 30 December 2009)

Depicts

bank, group of people, plastic bag, queue

Context

fall of the Berlin Wall, freedom of travel, joy, sorrow, wave of refugees, welcome money, Workers'-Peasants' Red Army

People/Organizations

Egon Krenz

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

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