Flowers for GDR Border Guards (November 10, 1989)

In the days after the surprising opening of the Wall, hundreds of thousands of East German citizens streamed across the border into West Berlin and the Federal Republic. A festive mood prevailed in Berlin and in both German states. In the image below, a West German border guard hands flowers to his East German colleagues in a gesture of friendship and peaceful change.

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