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Queue outside a branch of the Post bank

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 1989
Hof (Saale), near central station
Created By: Manfred Lohneisen

License: Creative Commons License

Outside a branch of the Post 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, crowd, logo, post, queue

Context

welcome money

Places

Hof (Saale)

Text in image

Post

Volksfürsorge

Siemens

vhs Volkshochschule Landkreis Hof

Einrichtungshaus am Hauptbahnhof

Sparkasse

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