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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Border opening at Potsdamer Platz [1/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 12 1989
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz (West)
Created By: Hartmut Kieselbach

License: Creative Commons License

Masses gathered at the border opening at Potsdamer Platz on 12 November 1989 at the Western side of the Wall; the Berlin House of Representatives in the background

Depicts

Berlin Wall (West), Berlin Wall graffiti (writing), camera, crowd, observation deck, opening of the border, traffic sign, Wall graffiti

Context

fall of the Berlin Wall

Places

Berlin House of Representatives, Postdamer Platz border crossing, Potsdamer Platz

Text in image

Kampagne für / eine Welt ohne Militär[-] / teilung durch Burg[...]

Long live Dala[...]

This wall[...]

[...] mich

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.