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November 12 1989
Berlin, Breitscheidplatz
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

License: Creative Commons License

A crowd of people in front of diverse supermarket-chain trucks during the distribution of free promotional gifts to GDR citizens
© OpenStreetMap contributors

Depicts

advertising gift, child, crowd, logo, megaphone, truck

Context

fall of the Berlin Wall, supermarket

Places

Breitscheidplatz, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Text in image

Food / Express [...]

Related

Original Caption

"In the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Wall, Kaiser's and other supermarket chains handed out entire lorry loads of prized Western foodstuffs to anyone with a GDR identity card. There was a real scramble for coffee and chocolate here on Breitscheidplatz."