A view inside the border strip

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 11 1989
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

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From the Set

The Wall Opens at Potsdamer Platz, West Berlin, 12 November 1989

A group of people in front of the West side of the Berlin Wall; two Trabant military vehicles on the patrol road in the border strip behind the Wall; a watchtower and the Hinterlandmauer (inner Eastern wall) in the background

Depicts

Berlin Wall (West), Berlin Wall graffiti (writing), border strip, group of people, inner-Eastern Wall, military vehicle, Trabant (car), Wall graffiti, watchtower

Context

Berlin Wall (West), border strip, crowd, curiosity, fall of the Berlin Wall, media, observation deck, opening of the border, sparkling wine

People/Organizations

Border Troops of the GDR, police (FRG)

Places

Postdamer Platz border crossing, Potsdamer Platz

Text in image

[Campaign to politically abolish] militarily imposed / [divisions toward the political integ]ration of homo sapiens / [for universal civil law and a world w]ithout a military / John Runnings der Mauerläufer

Kampagne für allgemeingültige Bürgerrechte und / eine Welt ohne Militär. Es gilt die militärisch bedingte / Teilung durch Bürgerrechte des Weltbürgers zu ersetzen.

Long Live Dalai Li.. / [T]his wall [...]

[...] mich alle nicht / verstanden!

Meiser

Manuela