Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: At the opening of the Burggrub/Neuhaus-Schierschnitz border crossing [77/87]
OBJECT INFORMATION
Info
November 24 1989
Burggrub (Bavaria)/Neuhaus-Schierschnitz (Suhl district, now Thuringia) border crossing
Created By:
Grenzpolizeiinspektion LudwigsstadtLicense: Not Creative Commons
District administrator Werner Schnappauf opens the new Burggrub/Neuhaus-Schierschnitz border crossing
Depicts
camera,
crowd,
inner German border,
megaphone,
member of the People's Police,
opening of the border,
policeman (FRG),
politician,
posterPlaces
Burggrub (Stockheim),
Burggrub (Stockheim)/Neuhaus-Schierschnitz border crossing,
Neuhaus-SchierschnitzOther 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.
