This was the scene Tuesday evening when two East German border guards patrol atop the Berlin wall with the illuminated Brandenburg Gate in background. West Berlin police reported Tuesday that East Germany will open the wall at this historic landmark.
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This was the scene Tuesday evening when two East German border guards patrol atop the Berlin wall with the illuminated Brandenburg Gate in background. West Berlin police reported Tuesday that East Germany will open the wall at this historic landmark.

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Photograph

Jockel Finck

Maker
German, 1962–2006

Associated Press

American

This was the scene Tuesday evening when two East German border guards patrol atop the Berlin wall with the illuminated Brandenburg Gate in background. West Berlin police reported Tuesday that East Germany will open the wall at this historic landmark.

November 1989
Chromogenic development print
27.0 x 34.5 cm.
Gift of The Associated Press
1990.0466.0019
Inscriptions verso-(caption label) "145. Jockel Finck, Berlin, Germany, November
14, 1989 This was the scene Tuesday evening when two East German
border guards patrol atop of Berlin wall with the illuminated
Brandenburg Gate in background. West Berlin police reported Tuesday
that East Germany will open the wall at this historic landmark."
(in ink) "145"

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