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Polizei-Auto der BRD fährt über die Grenze von Ost nach West, 1989

Öffnungsarbeiten an der Staatsgrenze zum Brandenburger Tor. Polizei-Auto der BRD überquert durch Tor die Grenze von Ost nach West. Pressevertreter und Polizisten stehen drumherum und schauen zu. Fotograf: Grahn

Police deployment

Chile, Santiago, 12.12.1989. Police operation in the city center of Santiago on 12.12.1989.

Demonstration on November 19, 1989

Germany, Berlin, November 19, 1989: Demonstration on November 19, 1989. Rally on Alexanderplatz, on the banner: "Forum geht's denn" ("Forum goes then").

Demonstration on 19 November, 1989

Germany, Berlin, November 19, 1989: Demonstration on November 19, 1989. Two children in front of the People's Chamber of the GDR, Palace of the Republic. On the banner: "Forward comrades, the avant-garde is after you!'

Demonstration on November 19, 1989

Germany, Berlin, November 19, 1989: Demonstration on November 19, 1989. Rally at Alexanderplatz. On the banner: "Forum geht's denn" (Forum goes then)

Opening of the Berlin Wall, 1989

A West Berlin police officer talks with his East German counterparts after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Opening of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz on November 11th, crowds, Berlin, photo 1989

West Berlin, November 11, 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the west (November 9, 1989), the provisional border crossing at Potsdamer Platz is opened. Black and white photography, 6x6 cm negative.

Opening of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz on 11 November, Berlin

Berlin, November 11, 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989), the provisional border crossing at Potsdamer Platz has been opened. Two GDR border guards with a West Berlin policeman. People cross the border. Photography.

Event shooting at the Berlin Wall

An artist dressed as an angel for a photo-shoot, next to police officers from West Berlin. In the background are GDR border policemen on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photograph from 1989.

Opening of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz on 11 November, Berlin

Berlin, November 11, 1989: After opening the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989), the provisional border crossing at Potsdamer Platz is opened. On the West Berlin side, people stand behind barriers to welcome border crossers from the GDR. GDR border guards and West Berlin policemen control the passage.

Border crossing in Berlin

Border guards of the GDR on the Berlin Wall in conversation with police officers of West Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photograph from 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall with the fall of communism and the nation's reunification.

Opening of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz on 11 November, Berlin

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989: members of the People's Police seal off the east side of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate

28 years after the closure of the inner German border, the GDR opened its border on November 9, 1989 to Berlin (West) and the rest of the Federal territory. By November 12, more than one million people from East Berlin flocked to Berlin (West) on foot or by car across the existing sector crossings. Here they are cheered by the West Berlin population. At the same time, the GDR had begun with the partial demolition of the Wall and the opening of new sector and border crossings. Photo: Lehnartz

Opening of the Berlin Wall, 1989

GDR, Berlin, 10.11.1989. After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, citizens flock over the Invalidenstrasse border crossing in the western part of the city (West Berlin). West Berlin policeman and GDR border officer.

Opening of the Berlin Wall, 1989

GDR, Berlin, 10.11.1989. After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, citizens walk over the Invalidenstrasse border crossing in the western part of the city (West Berlin). West Berlin policeman and GDR border officer.

Opening of the Berlin Wall, 1989

GDR, Berlin, 10.11.1989. After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, citizens walk over the Invalidenstrasse border crossing in the western part of the city (West Berlin). West Berlin policeman.

Andrang am Grenzübergang Invalidenstrasse in Berlin

Berlin 10.11.1989 Nahaufnahme: DDR-Pass mit Visa-Stempel, eine Polizist schreibt etwas in den Pass. Am Vorabend hat SED-Politbüromitglied Günter Schabowski auf einer Live-Pressekonferenz im Fernsehen die sorfortige Reisefreiheit verkündet: 'Privatreisen nach dem Ausland können ohne Vorliegen von Voraussetzungen - Reiseanlässe und Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse - beantragt werden. Die Genehmigungen werden kurzfristig erteilt.' Das gelte auch für Westberlin. Noch am gleichen Abend hatten Zehntausende die völlig überraschten Sicherheitskräfte förmlich überrannt. Der Fall der Berliner Mauer und letztendlich das Ende der DDR begann. Foto: Grahn

Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

Berlin, November 10, 1989: Thousands of Berliners are gathering on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. GDR border guards prevent people from entering the restricted area.

Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

GDR, Berlin, 09.11.1989. Opening of the Berlin Wall, border crossing Bornholmer Strasse, Boesebruecke, Allied Officers, West Berlin policeman.

GDR refugees on their arrival in the FRG, 1989

Refugees who have left the GDR by car, receive gas vouchers from the Bavarian police at a rest area behind the border crossing Suben at Passau. The high number of refugees caused traffic jams and long queues.

Polizisten während des Mauerfalls 1989

Zehn Jahre Deutsche Einheit am 03. Oktober 2000. Vor elf Jahren fiel die "Mauer" zwischen der BRD und DDR, die steinerne Grenze zwischen Ost und West. Ein Westberliner Polizeioffizier (r.) steckt seinem Kollegen aus der DDR eine Blume ins Knopfloch.

Demonstration on November 4, 1989

GDR, Berlin, 04.11.1989 Protest demonstration against violence and for constitutional rights, freedom of the press, opinion and assembly. Protest against attacks of the People's Police and Stasi against demonstrators on 7 October, organized by theater people and cultural workers. Marx-Engels-Platz , member of the People's Police with flowers.

Demonstration on 4 November, 1989

Germany, Berlin, November 4, 1989: Demonstration on 4 November, 1989, at Marx-Engels-Platz. Westward to the Berlin Wall, the demonstration is closed off by a cordon of members of the People's Police.

Demonstration in East Berlin, 1989

A demonstration organized by performers and creative artists for the implementation of Articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution of the GDR on the Alexanderplatz on 11/04/1989. In front the People's Police observe the happenings.

Demonstration in East Berlin, 1989

A demonstration organized by performers and creative artists for the implementation of Articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution of the GDR on the Alexanderplatz on 11/04/1989.

Demonstration in East Berlin, 1989

A demonstration organized by performers and creative artists for the implementation of Articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution of the GDR on the Alexanderplatz on 11/04/1989. On the poster: 'In the trash: dogmas, taboos, claim to leadership, electoral fraud, ignorance, violence!'.

Meeting of citizens in front of the Gethsemane Church

Germany, Berlin, October 8, 1989: Citizens and a television crew in front of the Gethsemane Church. A member of the People's Police standing in front of the entrance. After the riots on 7 October (40th anniversary of the GDR) around the Gethsemane Church and at Schoenhauser Allee, demonstrators were bludgeoned and arrested by the People's Police.

People's Police in East Berlin, 1989

The People's Police are trying to hamper the press in their work on 08.10.1989. At the railway bridge an advertisement for the newspaper 'Der Morgen' (The Morning) - 'the newspaper for the whole day.'

Vigil in the Gethsemane Church, 1989

Vigil in the Gethsemane Church on 08.10.1989.

A picket

GDR, Berlin, 08.10.1989. The People's Police prevents the work of journalists in front of the Gethsemane Church, where takes place a picket on 08.10.1989.

Demonstration GDR 40th anniversary Demonstration f freedom 40th anniversary of GDR

Demonstration for freedom of speech and reforms on the fringes of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the GDR. Many arrests. Berlin East 7.10.1989 // Demonstration for freedom and reforms on the day of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the East Germany, GDR. Many people were arrested. East Berlin 07.10.1989 [automated translation]

Checkpoint Charlie reinforcement of the border

Checkpoint Charlie The border. West German police vis-à-vis East German border security patrols In the night to the celebration of GDR`s 40 years anniversary the east German border was strengthened and extra guarded Police officers from West Berlin face East German border guards In the night to the celebration of GDR`s 40th anniversary The wall was extra strengthened and guarded at the border crossing Checkpoint Charlie in the night Berlin 6- 7.10. 1989 [automated translation]

The People's Police cordons off during a demonstration in East Berlin, 1989

Spontaneous demonstration for the democratic renewal of the socialism at the official state ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the GDR at the Palace of Republic on 07.10.1989. Roadblock of the People's Police.

Demonstration in East Berlin, 1989

An injured protester

GDR, Berlin, 07.10.1989. Spontaneous demonstration for a democratic renewal of socialism at the official state ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the GDR in the Palace of the Republic on 07.10.1989. A protester who was injured by the Volkspolizei before the ADN headquarters.

Spontaneous demonstration

GDR, Berlin, 07.10.1989. Spontaneous demonstration for a democratic renewal of socialism at the official state ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the GDR in the Palace of the Republic on 07.10.1989. Arrests and use of force before the ADN headquarters.

Spontaneous demonstration

GDR, Berlin, 07.10.1989. Spontaneous demonstration for a democratic renewal of socialism at the official state ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the GDR in the Palace of the Republic on 07.10.1989. A roadblock of the Stasi at the ADN headquarters. Arrests and use of force before the ADN headquarters.

An injured man

GDR, Berlin, 07.10.1989. An injured participant of a demonstration for the democratic renewal of socialism at the official state ceremony on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the GDR in the Palace of Republic on 07.10.1989. A roadblock of the People's Police with young people of the FDJ.

Arrests

GDR, Berlin, 07.10.1989. The People's Police and the Stasi arrest some of the participants of the demonstration for a democratic renewal of socialism, at the entrance of the news agency ADN, during the official state ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the GDR in the Palace of Republic on 07.10.1989. A roadblock of the People's Police with young people of the FDJ.

Vigil at the Gethsemane Church

Vigil at the Gethsemane Church. Protest meeting place and discussion place of the opposition in GDR. From October 2, 1989, the church was open day and night to demand the release of political prisoners. Protest and meeting point of East Germany's various opposition groups in the Gethsemanekirche, church in East Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. Since October 1989 the church was open day and night to demand the release of the arrested members of the opposition group. [automated translation]

DDR-Flüchtlinge 1989

DDR-Flüchtlinge überqueren anlässlich einer Paneuropa-Veranstaltung bei St. Margarethen die Grenze von Ungarn nach Österreich. 19. August 1989.

Star lawyer Rolf Bossi during the "Gladbeck trial", 1989

The Munich defense lawyer Rolf Bossi at the trial on the Gladbeck hostage-taking. In this process, he defended one of the hostage-takers and made the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia responsible for the escalation of the hostage crisis, in which three people died.

Federal Supreme Court, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-29-14 Federal Court of Justice Photo: the Federal Court of Justice [automated translation]

Federal Supreme Court, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-29-33 Federal Court of Justice Photo: the Federal Court of Justice [automated translation]

Federal Supreme Court, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-29-03 Federal Court of Justice Photo: the Federal Court of Justice [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-30-16 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-31-09 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-30-04 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-30-16 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-31-04 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No.: 07-31-18 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990), in front of the memorial plaque of Siegfried Buback [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-31-12 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-34-05 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-35-34 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Kurt Rebmann, 1989

Germany, Karlsruhe, 27.07.1989. Archive No: 07-33-12 Federal Court of Justice Photo: Kurt Rebmann, Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (1 July 1977 - 31 May 1990) [automated translation]

Deployment of water cannon

Germany, Berlin, 08.07.1989. Water cannons used at a protest demonstration against the Republican convention on 08.07.1989 in Berlin.

Deployment of water cannon

Germany, Berlin, 08.07.1989. Water cannons used at a protest demonstration against the Republican convention on 08.07.1989 in Berlin.

Stasi operation in East Berlin, 1989

Employees of the Stasi prevent a demonstration against the election fraud in the GDR with their presence on the Alexanderplatz on 07.07.1989.

Torture prison in Diyarbakir, 1989

View of the notorious torture prison in Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey. Many oppositionists, especially Kurds, are being held here.

Prof. Ulrich Klug

Prof. Ulrich Klug, lawyer, politician, Germany, FDP

Police

Essen, 25.03.1989 - Police officers pause at a store with special offers on the fringes of a demonstration. [automated translation]

Unsolved explosion at the atrium of the national committees buildings in Usti nad Labem in 1989

***FILE PHOTO; PERIOD TEXT*** At the atrium of the national committees buildings in Usti nad Labem, Czechoslovakia, an explosion occurred on February 8, 1989 in the early morning hours. Significant material damage was caused, no personal injuries occurred. Measures have been taken to speed up the elimination of damage. The cause of the explosion is being investigated by a special group of National Security Corps (SNB) specialists. There is no doubt that this is an intentional crime. (CTK Photo/Libor Zavoral)

Unsolved explosion at the atrium of the national committees buildings in Usti nad Labem in 1989

Opernballdemonstration 1989

Opera ball demonstration in Vienna. 2nd February 1989.

Berlin, policemen in the cemetery mosque

Berlin / Kreuzberg / Neukoelln 5 / 1989 Police officers in the cemetery mosque. Once they had to go to a mosque during their training to get to know their foreign citizens better. The mosque is located at the district border Neukoelln-Kreuzberg. It is close to the Turkish government. // Police / Islam / Districts / Security [automated translation]

Berlin, policemen in the cemetery mosque

Berlin / Kreuzberg / Neukoelln 5 / 1989 Police officers in the cemetery mosque. Once they had to go to a mosque during their training to get to know their foreign citizens better. The mosque is located at the district border Neukoelln-Kreuzberg. It is close to the Turkish government. Group picture with Imam // Police / Islam / Districts / [automated translation]

Berlin, policemen in the cemetery mosque

Arrest of a Pole on the Polish market, 1989

Berlin / Kreuzberg / Police 6/1989 Arrest of a Pole on the Polish market, who was in 1989 where DEBIS is now at Potsdamer Platz It was a kind of troedelmarkt, but stolen objects were also traded. // Foreigners / [automated translation]

Russian soldiers in Berlin

Russian soldiers taking a walk in Treptower Park, East Berlin, GDR. Photographed around 1989.

Polizist aus Pappe

A policeman made of cardboard in Styria to deter racers. 1989. Photograph.

Gerichtsverhandlung gegen Nicolae Ceausescu

Trial against Nicolae Ceausescu - the former President of Romania - and his wife Elena in a military tribunal was send by the Romanian television in a record. The programme was complemented by still images. 1989.