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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Trabant on Kurfürstendamm [1/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 10 1989
Berlin, Kurfürstendamm
Created By: Sigrid Marotz

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

Ein Jahr deutscher Geschichte 1989-1990. Eine Dokumentation in Wort und Bild von Sigrid Marotz

Depicts

group of people, stop, Trabant (car), warehousing

Places

Kurfuerstendamm

Text in image

U Kurfürstendamm / 19 U Platz der Luftbrücke / 29 U Hermannplatz / 73 Britz Buschkrug / 19N Sonnenallee P. Anders Str. / 29N U Hermannplatz / 48N S Nikolassee

ABC / Barkredit / Bank [2x]

Wertheim

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.

Original Caption

"State of emergency: no fines from the police today. Parked one whole day in a no standing spot, did the rest on foot with a city map, as they are arriving from all corners of the GDR."