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Queue outside Hof town hall

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 1989
Hof (Saale), Klosterstraße 2
Created By: Bernhard Ott

License: Creative Commons License

Outside the town hall in Hof, one of the "welcome money" payout points.
"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)." (Wikipedia: Begrüßungsgeld, retrieved 30 December 2009)

Depicts

crowd, logo, newspaper, plastic bag, queue, savings bank, shop

Context

welcome money

Places

Hof (Saale)

Text in image

Einhorn Apotheke

Sparkasse [2x]

Related

Original Caption

"Visitors from the East in Hof shopping streets"