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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: West Berlin’s Mayor Walter Momper at the re-opening of the Glienicke Bridge [35/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 10 1989
Potsdam, Glienicke Bridge
Created By: Wolfgang Heinrich

License: Creative Commons License

Former mayor of West Berlin Walter Momper surrounded by onlookers on Glienicke Bridge, which connects Berlin and Potsdam over the Havel River and was opened to residents of the GDR for the first time since 1961 on 10 November 1989

Depicts

crowd, emotion, flower, joy, member of the People's Police, opening of the border, television camera

Context

fall of the Berlin Wall

People/Organizations

Walter Momper

Places

Glienicke Bridge border crossing

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.