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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Border patrol [81/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 10 1989 - January 10 1990
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz
Created By: Gerd Rosskamp

License: Not Creative Commons

Three patrolling border guards on the West side of the Berlin Wall; Brandenburg Gate in the background

Depicts

Berlin Wall (West), border guard, group of people, man, Wall graffiti

Places

Brandenburg Gate

Text in image

Deuts[chland] / den / Deuts[chen]

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.