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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Border opening at Potsdamer Platz [9/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 12 1989
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

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

A crowd of people at the border opening at Potsdamer Platz on 12 November 1989

Depicts

allies, Berlin Wall (West), crowd, military vehicle, mural crown, observation deck, opening of the border

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

Other items in this set

Almost everyone knows to this day where he or she was on 9 November 1989. The joy at being suddenly granted the freedom to travel, also to West Germany, was immense. Each time a new border crossing was opened, people celebrated. In the same way, the removal of segments of the Wall and of border fence, as well as the reconstruction of roads between East and West became important events. Countless photographs and films taken in Berlin and at the inner-German border document these incidents as they occurred – thus preserving the good fortune of experiencing everything live for the family album.