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View from a watchtower 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

View from a watchtower in the cleared border strip in Berlin-Steinstücken (Wikipedia article, retrieved on January 6, 2010), one of the ten West-Berliner exclaves while the Wall was up

Depicts

cleared border strip, group of people, May Day, remains of the Wall, 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

"View of Steinstücken from the watchtower, a city that had been walled-in for 28 years. The border strip was quickly cleared end of 1989, beginning of 1990. By May Day 1990, only remnants of the 'Anti-Fascist Protection Wall' were to be seen."