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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: Banner "CDU greets DSU" [50/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

January 1 - March 31 1990
Berlin and vicinity
Created By: Ralf Skiba

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

Greetings

Handpainted, black and white CDU banner hanging on a garden fence

Depicts

banderole, fence, national colours

Context

election campaign, Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Christian Democratic Union of Germany (GDR)

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

CDU Borsigwalde / grüsst / DSU Oranienburg

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Memory

"I was born in Berlin and watched the Wall being built from my classroom in the district of Wedding. I found it quite remarkable that the GDR, the German 'Democratic!' Republic, held its first democratic elections on 18 March 1990 only to dissolve itself shortly afterwards. In the run-up to the election, I spent nearly every weekend from January to March 1990 touring the area around Berlin with my family, and taking photographs of the election campaign, posters, and everything else that had to do with the elections."

Ralf Skiba (West Berlin)