East Berliners welcomed by a West Berlin crowd after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989
East Berliners welcomed by a West Berlin crowd after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989
Is there a word for being trapped IN your own country? A lack or internal freedom of movement?
Any East Germans want to weigh in? Y'all have the experience & best compound words.
African medical students in Quedlinburg, East Germany, 1963
βͺ π©πͺ A dilapidated red brick bell tower rises above the tree line, atop a small hill in a German village. A neo-Gothic silhouette that is increasingly blurred by encroaching trees.
Post-reunification attendance dropped, and the church closed in the 1990s. Lack of heating and ventilation allowed black mould to thrive, covering around 90 per cent of the interior surfaces.
Full feature live Sunday at 8 pm (UK)
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Ballsaal Sandkorn. An abandoned ballroom in East Germany. Before the Berlin Wall fell, every town and village had a dance hall like this one.
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/ballsaal-sandkorn-ballhaus-d-germany/
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East German apartment blocks, 1975
https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1890753/east-german-apartment-blocks-1975