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A view inside the border strip

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

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

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

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

A crowd of people in front of the West side of the Berlin Wall; two Trabant military vehicles and building machines in the border strip behind the Wall, 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 strip, crane, crowd, inner-Eastern Wall, military vehicle, Trabant (car), Wall graffiti, watchtower

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

[Kampagne für allgemein]gültige Bürgerrechte und / [eine Welt ohne Militär. Es gilt] die militärisch bedingte / [Teilung durch Bürgerrechte d]es Weltbürgers zu ersetzen

[...] nicht / [ver]standen!

Rumelo

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