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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: Sign, "...this Wall is finally open" [1/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

March 3 1990
Berlin/Brandenburg, Oranienburger Chaussee (Glienicke/Nordbahn)/Berliner Straße (Hermsdorf) border crossing
Created By: Ralf Skiba

License: Creative Commons License

"Dieser Tag war unser Hoffen, endlich ist diese Mauer offen!" (For this day we've all been hoping, finally this Wall's been opened!"). A handmade sign on the occasion of the opening of the Oranienburger Chaussee border crossing (Glienicke/Nordbahn)/Berliner Straße (Hermsdorf) at the so-called "Entenschnabel" ("duck's bill"), the western end of the Straße Am Sandkrug in the Brandenburg borough of Glienicke/Nordbahn (that reached into the Berlin territory in the shape of a duck's bill).

Depicts

group of people, handmade medium, national colours, opening of the border, signboard

Context

celebration

Places

Oranienburger Chaussee (Glienicke/Nordbahn)/Berliner Straße (Hermsdorf) border crossing

Text in image

Dieser [T]ag war unser Hoffen, / endlich ist diese Mauer offen!

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Memory

"I was born in Berlin and watched the Wall being built from my classroom in the district of Wedding. I found it quite remarkable that the GDR, the German 'Democratic!' Republic, held its first democratic elections on 18 March 1990 only to dissolve itself shortly afterwards. In the run-up to the election, I spent nearly every weekend from January to March 1990 touring the area around Berlin with my family, and taking photographs of the election campaign, posters, and everything else that had to do with the elections."

Ralf Skiba (West Berlin)