Fall of the Wall
Guards on Duty

All these uniforms are Communist East German border guards. The opening of the Wall was a total surprise to everyone, both sides of the Wall, and there was a lot of chaos where the guards were just improvising, and completely out of their element. Their future was not at all to be what they had signed up for, and was now a total unknown. (There was a report that some actually landed in western department stores in "security work.")

Guards on Duty

All these uniforms are Communist East German border guards. The opening of the Wall was a total surprise to everyone, both sides of the Wall, and there was a lot of chaos where the guards were just improvising, and completely out of their element. Their future was not at all to be what they had signed up for, and was now a total unknown. (There was a report that some actually landed in western department stores in "security work.")