Crowd at Potsdamer Platz border opening

Info

November 12 1989
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz
Created By: Gottfried Schenk

License: Not Creative Commons

From the Set

Crowd at the opening of a new border crossing at Potsdamer Platz the then Hotel Esplanade (Wikipedia-Artikel, retrieved on 25 March 2010) in the background. The remains of the hotel were placed under heritage protection in 1989 and integrated into the Sony Center building complex by means of a spectacular translocation

Depicts

camera, crowd, opening of the border

Context

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

People/Organizations

Egon Krenz

Places

Hotel Esplanade, Postdamer Platz border crossing, Potsdamer Platz

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