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In the former border strip in Berlin-Steinstücken

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

May 1 1990
Berlin-Steinstücken
Duration: ca 12 Min min.
Created By: Christine Krüger

License: Not Creative Commons

From the Set

Visiting the Wall, Steinstücken near Berlin, 1 May 1990

A military jeep in the former border strip in Berlin-Steinstücken (Wikipedia article, retrieved on January 6, 2010), one of the ten West-Berliner exclaves while the Wall was up; a watchtower in the background

Depicts

cleared border strip, May Day, military vehicle, Trabant (car), watchtower

Context

bicycle, construction of the Wall, fall of the Berlin Wall, hope, houses, leisure time, luckiness, May Day, savings bank, sorrow

Places

Berlin-Steinstücken

Related

Original Caption

"GDR border soldiers still drove their Trabant jeeps along the border road and patrolled a border that had in actual fact ceased to exist."