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"Wall peckers" in Berlin, 10 November 1989. People started tearing down the Berlin Wall on their own. Official demolition began at Potsdamer Platz in November 1989, and continued from 20 February 1990 between the Brandenburg Gate and the border post at Checkpoint Charlie.
Quelle: Bundesregierung/Uwe Rau
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Unimaginable a few months previously – an improvised snack bar close to the border buildings at the former transit checkpoint Helmstedt/Marienborn, August 1990.
Quelle: Bundesregierung/Engelbert Reineke
Street café at Michaelismarkt in Erfurt, June 1990. The old was not yet past, but the new was already leaving its first traces. In this "interim realm" the people in the GDR developed a taste for new ways of living.
Quelle: Bundesregierung/Lehnartz
Employment office in Altenburg, August 1990. The East Germans felt a mix of hopes and fears at this time. Many were worried about their jobs. Unemployment in the GDR rose to nearly two hundred thousand by summer 1990.
Quelle: Gerhard Gäbler/Leipzig
At last – take a holiday wherever you want! Travel agency at Alexanderplatz, Berlin, 3 July 1990.
Quelle: ullstein bild/Peters
Signs on the flat door: travel postcards win out over the deposed state and party boss Erich Honecker and his wife Margot, GDR minister of national education.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft/Frank Ebert
Press freedom: The West German press in an East German environment. Newspaper seller in Wurzen, Saxony, October 1990.
Quelle: picture-alliance/akg-images/Cordia Schlegelmilch
[Translate to English:] ADAC-Prüfstand für Zweitakt-Pkws in Weimar, Juni 1990. Der Trabant, umgangssprachlich liebevoll „Trabi“ genannt, war das Volksauto in der DDR. Aufgrund von Produktionsengpässen mussten die Käufer mehr als zehn Jahre auf die Lieferung warten.
Quelle: Bundesregierung/Lehnartz
Future consumers: West German firms distributing free goods to East German citizens. Berlin, former checkpoint at Heinrich-Heine-Straße, November 1989.
Quelle: Hans-Peter Stiebing
[Translate to English:] Ostdeutsche Bauern können ihre Erzeugnisse nur noch schwer absetzen, nachdem im Frühjahr und Sommer 1990 die DDR-Landwirtschaft den Bedingungen in der Bundesrepublik und der Europäischen Gemeinschaft angepasst wurde. Die Preise sind gesunken, die Hälfte des Erlöses ist weggefallen. Bauern aus allen Teilen der DDR versammeln sich aus Angst um ihren Arbeitsplatz und ihre Existenz am 15. August auf dem Alexanderplatz. Ihr Zorn richtet sich gegen die Regierung, ganz besonders gegen Landwirtschaftsminister Peter Pollack.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft/Sandro Most
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