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Satire and Caricatures: Banners at the Alexanderplatz demonstration [1/15]

OBJECT INFORMATION

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November 4 1989
Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Created By: Thomas Wiesenack

License: Not Creative Commons

"Großmutter, warum hast du so große Zähne?" ("Grandmother, why do you have such big teeth?") - banner at the Alexanderplatz demonstration, the "largest anti-government demonstration(s) in the history of the GDR" (retrieved and translated from Wikipedia: Alexanderplatz-Demonstration, on April 23, 2009); the Centrum-Warenhaus department store (with its still intact aluminium honeycomb facade that was torn down in 2004) in the background

Depicts

Alexanderplatz demonstration, banderole, caricature, protest sign, warehousing

People/Organizations

Egon Krenz

Places

"Centrum" department store (Berlin-Alexanderplatz), Alexanderplatz

Text in image

[R]eformen uns / [...] / in die Volkswi[rtschaft]

Großmutter, / warum hast du / so große Zähne?

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