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At Potsdamer Platz border crossing

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

December 14 1989
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz border crossing
Created By: Thomas Hackmann

License: Creative Commons License

Angel and Santa Claus at Potsdamer Platz, which served as a new border crossing as of 12 November 1989

Depicts

barrier grid, border guard, cross, disguise, group of people, night

Context

Christmas

People/Organizations

People's Police

Places

Postdamer Platz border crossing, Potsdamer Platz

Text in image

13.8.61 - 9.11.89

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Original Caption

"Passport controls. My flash malfunctions! I say something nice to the border guard and then he repeats the motions so I can take another photo. Previously unthinkable! The angel puts on her exaggerated "standard passport control face" that most of us West Berliners used to wear!"