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Sign, "...this Wall is finally open"

OBJECT INFORMATION

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March 3 1990
Berlin/Brandenburg, Oranienburger Chaussee (Glienicke/Nordbahn)/Berliner Straße (Hermsdorf) border crossing
Created By: Ralf Skiba

License: Creative Commons License

"Dieser Tag war unser Hoffen, endlich ist diese Mauer offen!" (For this day we've all been hoping, finally this Wall's been opened!"). A handmade sign on the occasion of the opening of the Oranienburger Chaussee border crossing (Glienicke/Nordbahn)/Berliner Straße (Hermsdorf) at the so-called "Entenschnabel" ("duck's bill"), the western end of the Straße Am Sandkrug in the Brandenburg borough of Glienicke/Nordbahn (that reached into the Berlin territory in the shape of a duck's bill).

Depicts

group of people, handmade medium, national colours, opening of the border, signboard

Context

celebration

Places

Oranienburger Chaussee (Glienicke/Nordbahn)/Berliner Straße (Hermsdorf) border crossing

Text in image

Dieser [T]ag war unser Hoffen, / endlich ist diese Mauer offen!

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