Aftermath of the Berlin Wall coming down

We took this video footage at the East/West German Border near Hof, West Germany two days after the Berlin Wall came down. It shows the East German citizens streaming into West Germany in their "traubies" (two-stroke Russian-made cars), most for the first time in their lives. The emotions of both the East Germans coming into West Germany and the West Germans welcoming them is visible in the faces and voices of the people in the video.

The West German government gave each East Germany visitor 250DM in "begruessungsgelt" (welcome-money) since the East Germany currency was worthless in West Germany and otherwise they would not have been able to afford to visit. The line outside the Red Cross building is for East Germans to collect their money.

The normally high-speed German autobahns were crowded with the slow-moving traubies, making for many traffic jams and very unsafe driving conditions.

All-in-all it was a tremendously emotional and moving event to witness.

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News & Politics

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• berlin
• wall
• east
• germany
• west
• november
• 1989
• begrussungsgelt
• Wiedervereinigung
• german
• reunification

[Shukria123]

but these changing winds can turn cold and hostile..

[hellogoodbye753]

It's weird to see that their cars never changed with the decades. They're exactly as they were in the 1960s.. it's creepy.

[weatherallc05]

i actually am shocked at the fact someone has a video of the aftermath from 1989!! 1989! amazing

[GodBotherer1]

@Shukria123

Oh, surveys drafted by college hippies who walk around the streets of Berlin & write only what they want the world to know?

I'm sure there are many Germans who'd love to live behind a 12' wall surrounded by barbed wire, land mines & anti-tank traps.

[Shukria123]

@GodBotherer1 Just search 'Germans Berlin Wall back' in Google. Lots of opinion

surveys show that a significant portion of Germans want the Berlin Wall back.

[GodBotherer1]

@Shukria123

Please, tell me who would really like to have the wall back up & who would really like to be shot to death for walking over a border by the same country who claims the republic is "the people's".

The only people today who want socialism are dirty hippies & college bums who suck refugee cock & believe in that bullshit science called climate change.

[Shukria123]

Long live Erich Honecker and the SED!

[Shukria123]

@GodBotherer1 Except a lot of East Germans want the wall back;

they may have had shitty cars under socialism but at least they had a job. Unemployment is now %13+ in the former East Germany.

[GodBotherer1]

@mikekinney288

What would you use then?

Would you use fresh air, green grass, clean water & a loving family as rating happiness?

People like you probably only drive as far as 15 minutes away.

If I had to drive those shitboxes, I'd tell the DDR government to shove it & I'd jump the wall too.

[mikekinney288]

@GodBotherer1 I wouldn't use the type of car a person drives as rating happiness.