Queue in front of a Sparkasse bank

Info

November 11 1989
Berlin-Lichtenrade, Goltzstraße
Created By: Monika Waack

License:

From the Set

In front of a Sparkasse bank where "welcome money" was being disbursed.

"Begrüßungsgeld (German: welcome money) was, from 1970 until 29 December 1989, a gift from the government of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) to visitors from the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)." (Wikipedia: Begrüßungsgeld, retrieved 30 December 2009)

Depicts

advertisement, crowd, logo, omnibus, queue, savings bank

Context

bank, child, consumption, fall of the Berlin Wall, German Mark, merchandize, scepticism, Trabant (car), traffic, Wartburg (car), welcome gift, welcome money

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

Related