Abstract

Thousands of people pour into West Berlin through an opening in the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse. When the new GDR travel regulations took effect on November 9/10, 1989, hundreds of thousands of GDR citizens were finally able to visit West Berlin and the Federal Republic for the first time in 28 years.

Crowd of People at the New Border Crossing on Bernauer Strasse (November 12, 1989)

Source

Source: picture-alliance/dpa (c) dpa-Bildarchiv

Recommended Citation

Crowd of People at the New Border Crossing on Bernauer Strasse (November 12, 1989), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/a-new-germany-1990-2023/ghdi:image-3026> [April 23, 2024].

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