When a West German photographer set off on a trip to the East German island of Rügen just after the Wall fell in the spring of 1990, he captured a world that would soon disappear forever. Twenty years after the epochal event, Karlheinz Jardner looks back on his journey and the photos he took. Der Spiegel and a Slideshow
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Thanks, Nam! That brings back happy childhood memories.
nice. somewhere around here i have hundreds of slides from e germany from the summer of '90...
wow, steven that would be an awesome collection!
i remember being especially obsessed with trabants. the way people had modified, stickered, painted their almost-alike trabis felt like such a direct and necessary example of personal expression.
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