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Queue in Hof

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 12 - December 12 1989
Hof, Poststraße
Created By: Runhild Laubmann

License: Creative Commons License

"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) and those from Poland able to prove their German ancestory." (Wikipedia: Begrüßungsgeld, retrieved 30 December 2009)

Depicts

group of people, logo, post, queue, shop, truck

Context

welcome money

Places

Hof (Saale)

Text in image

[P]ost / Drogerie

Fruchthalle Friseur Parfümerie

Keralogie

Poststraße

Friseur Salon [...]

Related

Original Caption

"Waiting in line for "welcome money": banks and other public institutions, such as schools, pay the money out - around the clock!"