Berliners on top of the wall welcoming East Germans (back to camera) flooding through the wall into West Berlin at Potsdamer Platz passage which was opened by East Germany on Sunday morning.

Berliners on top of the wall welcoming East Germans (back to camera) flooding through the wall into West Berlin at Potsdamer Platz passage which was opened by East Germany on Sunday morning.

Photograph

Associated Press

American

Lionel Cironneau

Maker
French, b. 1958

Berliners on top of the wall welcoming East Germans (back to camera) flooding through the wall into West Berlin at Potsdamer Platz passage which was opened by East Germany on Sunday morning.

November 1989
Chromogenic development print
24.4 x 19.4 cm.
Gift of The Associated Press
1990.0466.0012
Inscriptions verso-(caption label) "137. Lionel Cironneau, Berlin, Germany,
November 12, 1989 Berliners on top of the wall welcoming East
Germans (back to camera) flooding through the wall into West Berlin at
the roof of different buildings near Palace square, Sunday. Two days
Potsdamer Platz passage which was opened by East Germany on Sunday
morning."
(in ink) "137"

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