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Aerial shots: Official opening ceremony at Brandenburg Gate border crossing [9/20]

OBJECT INFORMATION

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December 22 1989
Berlin, Pariser Platz
Created By: Christer Markgraf

License: Creative Commons License

Crowds of people at the Brandenburg Gate border crossing, festively opened on 22 December 1989. Hundreds of camera teams and more than 100,000 people attended the border opening ceremony led by the then Bundeskanzler, Helmut Kohl and the East German premier, Hans Modrow.

Depicts

crowd, isolating equipment, rain

Context

opening of the border

Places

Brandenburger Tor border crossing, Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, Reichstag building

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Original Caption

"The opening of Bandenburg Gate. The Gate is open."