Construction work in the border strip

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 11 1989
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

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From the Set

The Wall Opens at Potsdamer Platz, West Berlin, 12 November 1989

A view from the West side of the Berlin Wall onto construction work in the border strip, presumably in preparation of the border opening on 12 November; the Hinterlandmauer (inner Eastern wall) in the background

Depicts

Berlin Wall (West), Berlin Wall graffiti (writing), border guard, border strip, crane, group of people, hammer and sickle (symbol), inner-Eastern Wall, military vehicle, swastika, Trabant (car), Wall graffiti

Context

Berlin Wall (West), border strip, crowd, curiosity, fall of the Berlin Wall, media, observation deck, opening of the border, sparkling wine

People/Organizations

Border Troops of the GDR, police (FRG)

Places

Postdamer Platz border crossing, Potsdamer Platz

Text in image

Campaign to politically abolish militarily [...] / divisions toward the political integration of hom[...] / for universal civil law and a world wothout a mili[...] / John Runnings der Mauerläufer

Gary Barn[...]

Blick

Estonia

Hitler- / Stalin- / Pact

Boys on tour [...]