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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Waiting in line for “welcome money” [57/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 15 1989
Ludwigsstadt
Created By: Grenzpolizeiinspektion Ludwigsstadt

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 (GDR - East Germany)." (Wikipedia: Begrüßungsgeld, retrieved 30 December 2009)

Depicts

crowd, queue, shop, Trabant (car)

Context

welcome money

Places

Ludwigsstadt

Text in image

Eisen-[Bergner]

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.