Payment of welcome money
OBJECT INFORMATION
Info
November 9 1989
Duration: 02:46 min.
Broadcaster:
RIAS TV - Deutsche WelleLicense: Not Creative Commons
Since 1970, every GDR citizen entering the FRG had a right to thirty deutschmarks of welcome money twice a year, financed with funds from the federal budget. In 1988 the sum was increased to 100 deutschmark but could only be claimed once a year. Following the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, banks and savings banks paid the sum to eighteen million GDR citizens.
Depicts
bank,
savings bankfall of the Berlin Wall,
opening of the border,
welcome moneyPlaces
BreitscheidplatzRelated
