End of border controls following opening up of Berlin Wall

Title

End of border controls following opening up of Berlin Wall

Genre

News report; Special

TX Date

Nov 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:53

Description

Report on the decision by the East German Government to allow its citizens to cross the Berlin Wall freely into West Germany. Live coverage by an unidentified female reporter who drives through Wall as crowds celebrate being able to cross without any border controls and pass unhindered between East and West Berlin for the first time since the wall went up.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Immigration; Germany; Europe; Germany FR; German DR; Berlin Wall; Border control

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