Queue outside the town hall in Hof

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November 1989
Hof (Saale), Klosterstraße
Created By: Gerhard Puchta

License: Not Creative Commons

Outside the town hall in Hof, where "welcome money" was disbursed (St. Michael's Church in the background).

"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

church (building), city hall, crowd, plastic bag, queue

Context

welcome money

Places

Hof (Saale)

Text in image

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