Queue outside a branch of the Berliner Bank
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November 12 1989
Berlin, Hardenbergstraße
Created By:
Gottfried SchenkLicense: Not Creative Commons
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Queue outside a branch of the Berliner Bank where "Welcome Money" was 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) as well as those from Poland able to prove their German ancestory." (
Wikipedia: Begrüßungsgeld, retrieved 30 December 2009)
Depicts
bank,
group of people,
plastic bag,
queuefall of the Berlin Wall,
freedom of travel,
joy,
sorrow,
wave of refugees,
welcome money,
Workers'-Peasants' Red ArmyPeople/Organizations
Egon KrenzPlaces
Other places (Berlin)Text in image
Berliner Bank
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Original Caption
""Welcome Money" recipients outside a Berliner Bank"