Iconic photos that stay with you forever--post yours...

[hlthe2b]

Mine from this summer has to be this






I will never think of my part in this destruction as acceptable... and will never look at the true price of our energy culture the same...

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[Brickbat]

2. ROFLMAO.

[hlthe2b]

9. ROFL

Ahhh, now, that's a keeper! :rofl:

[Lisa0825]

45. Hey! what did I miss? nt

[GodlessBiker]

56. It was one of those world cup vovoluzawuza horns blowing out of a fat guy's ass.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

49. Wanna know too.

I hope it was "Three Invisible Dicks". :rofl:

[NoNothing]

3. Though I wasn't around for it

[HopeHoops]

119. I was. Watched it on a small B&W TV.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I will never think of THIS destruction as acceptable. Yippie ki yay, motherfucker. Good riddance.

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) welcomes President-elect Barack Obama to in the North Portico of White House before Obama's Inauguration as the 44th president of the United States of America January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Pool/Getty Images)

Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb, you know better but I know him.
Like I told you, what I said, Steal your face right off your head.

Now he's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone.
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring him back...He's gone.

Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside.
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!

Now he's gone, now he's gone Lord he's gone, he's gone.
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring him back...He's gone.

Goin' where the wind don't blow so strange,
Maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
Lost one round but the price wasn't anything,
A knife in the back and more of the same.

Same old, rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb,
I know better but you know him.
Like I told you, what I said,
Steal your face right off your head.

Now he's gone, now he's gone Lord he's gone, he's gone.
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring him back...He's gone.

Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back.

[Greyhound]

52. Oops.

[lpbk2713]

5. I saw it as it happened and I'll never forget it.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. .

[Forkboy]

145. For what that represents, I say it's the best picture of all time.

[HEyHEY]

156. I know so many people in China that don't even know what that is

Fucked up.

[Ryano42]

7. Iconic

:patriot:

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. ewwwww. A pizza burger?

[Mimosa]

115. Looks like a Muffaletta to me

A muffaletta is a Sicilian invented sandwich popular for about 100 years in New Orleans.

It has ham, mortadella, Italian cheeses and olive salad. It is made with a special round bread with sesame seeds. I'm hungry now!

[EmilyKent]

8. This won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994

[hlthe2b]

10. God.... that one is wrenching...

[EmilyKent]

13. The photographer, Kevin Carter, committed suicide

due to depression just 3 months later.

It's always stayed with me.

[HughBeaumont]

11. So horrible that the photographer killed himself soon after:

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/29/world/kevin-carter-a-pulitzer-winner-for-sudan-photo-is-dead-at-33.html?showabstract=1

Last year, saying he needed a break from South Africa's turmoil, he paid his own way to the southern Sudan to photograph a civil war and famine he felt the world was overlooking.

His picture of an emaciated girl collapsing on the way to a feeding center, as a plump vulture lurked in the background, was published first in The New York Times and The Mail & Guardian, a Johannesburg weekly. Later it was displayed in many other publications as a metaphor for Africa's despair.

The reaction to the picture was so strong that The Times published an unusual editors' note on the fate of the girl. Mr. Carter said she resumed her trek to the feeding center. He chased away the vulture.

Afterward, he told an interviewer in April, he sat under a tree for a long time, "smoking cigarettes and crying."

Supposedly, he was also told not to touch the girl for his own safety (disease).

[hlthe2b]

15. "told not to touch the girl for his own safety [disease])"

I don't think I could have restrained myself.... I wonder if she survived. (of course she was merely a symbol of thousands like her)

[petronius]

14. I remember seeing that one when it first appeared - unforgettable.

The photographer (Kevin Carter) committed suicide a few months after receiving the prize. His note mentioned being haunted by all the horrors he'd witnessed and photographed.

He also received a great deal of vilification for taking the picture and (apparently) doing nothing to help...

[EmilyKent]

25. I don't know.

Some stories say he didn't help, and he later said he did. But he may have been prettifying the story to end the attacks on him.

I guess we'll never know.

The worst part is that even if she ate, she'd die anyway. Apparently at that stage, food reactivates the internal parasites, and that kills the victims.

[Hosnon]

27. Awful...

Do we know what happened to the child?

[Bluerthanblue]

36. this one is mine too. it haunts me still- n/t

[superconnected]

82. Totally heart wrenching.

[stuntcat]

131. I have that one on my fridge

Not that the people who need to be reminded of this are comin all up in my house checking out my refrigerator magnets though

[AsahinaKimi]

12. 1989 San Francisco

[Suich]

90. My son was living there at the time.

He managed to call me within 30 mins. and I told him what I was seeing on TV...a fire in the Marina District and the Bay Bridge collapse. He was at work downtown and there was mass confusion.

That's the most scared I ever want to be in my life!

[deaniac21]

16. Last Jew of Vinnitsa

[GodlessBiker]

24. Frightening.

[Ryano42]

18. as a NASA brat:

:(

[Bandit]

19. I thought this one was pretty powerful

[GodlessBiker]

20. This one.

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/23/trade_narrowweb__300x478,0.jpg

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. Oh god, that is too painful to see even now.

[undeterred]

92. There's a documentary on that photo on You Tube.

I didn't see it at the time of 9/11, but about 5 years later. Very interesting story about identifying him.

[superconnected]

71. Gotta wonder how GW bush sleeps at night for that.

When I think of how Merkle cringed when Bush touched her, I always think of the people hanging off the towers and how she probably "got it", that he is a murderer.

[Arkansas Granny]

21. This one has haunted me for many years.

[hlthe2b]

33. Yes.. I remember putting this one to Croce's "Time in a Bottle"

as part of a photojournalism essay. It is as powerful now as it was years ago.

[Saphire]

51. yes, that was my choice as well. I was only a child myself.

[frylock]

22. ..

[DBoon]

23. kent state shooting

[HughBeaumont]

26. 2 from 2007 -

Teabagger pigshits assaulting Carlos Arredondo . . . a Gold Star Father.


Teabagger pigshits who attacked Carlos - yukking it up with DC Cops. Nary an arrest. Nary a citation. Absolutely amazing.

I marched on that day, with that father, next to his coffin and his sons boots. These forever sealed the wall between me and arch-rightist Teabagger sisterbangers. True colors, and all that. This is why I'll never counterprotest a Gathering of the Inbreds - I'd be arrested for multiple assaults.


Side note - Possibly, the "Morans" icon spotted deep in the background.

[proud2BlibKansan]

122. And those assholes were hailed as heroes by Michelle Malkin

The anniversary of Alex's death is coming up. Got an email from Melida yesterday. Carlos is being interviewed for a couple articles. Such a wonderful family!

[unhappycamper]

127. Carlos and Mel live only about 1/2 mile from my house.

I love them both!

[proud2BlibKansan]

128. Hugs from me!

Jealous of you.

[blm]

28. Just posted about this a few weeks ago since NYT is publishing a book of iconic photos next spring

http://www.beautyoutofdamage.com/Aboutphoto.html

Life magazine chose this for their issue featuring the 100 most important photos since the invention of the camera - some of the photos posted above also are included.

[mike r]

29. John Hoagland - El Salvador:

[Ryano42]

30. Then...and NOW...our choice:

:kick:

[Lisa0825]

47. THANK YOU! LOL

This thread was making me all weepy... thank you for making me laugh! :pals:

[pnorman]

66. When I first laid eyes on that image, I was sure that it had been Photoshopped,

and pretty crudely at that!


But a few days later, I began to see it in MSM news reports! Apparently it's authentic!

[Mariana]

118. There are several pics of McCain with his tongue hanging out

just like that, taken at different times. Real ones, I mean. I don't know if it's some kind of tic or what, but that wasn't the only time he got caught on camera doing that.

[Mimosa]

116. OMG! LOL. We needed reminding! n/t

[blm]

153. really looks photo=shopped though we know it isn't

.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

31. This isn't a still but a video that just seemed so symbolic

of the differences between Rethugs and Dems.

Bush and Clinton were in Haiti shaking hands with the Haitians.
Clinton of course is in his element, but watch how Bush shows
his disgust.

http://gothamist.com/2010/03/24/video_bush_thinks_haitians_are_like.php

[lillypaddle]

124. What an asshat

sheesh.

[GrantDem]

32. This one from my hometown:

Marion, IN. August 7, 1930.

[HughBeaumont]

34. I hope all of those people died painful, lonely and slow tortured deaths.

Man's inhumanity to man.

[superconnected]

76. This one has always terrified me - and I'm white!

[salin]

93. Sadly, I thought of this as well...

not my hometown, and before my time, but in my state.

Horrific (as are many of the images on this thread.)

[AnArmyVeteran]

104. That same level of hatred exists today in the right wing.

The level of their racism, hatred, anger and ignorance is equal to the days when lynchings were common. They are of the same mindset and total lack of compassion for their fellow man. But then communication was slow and ties between the radical groups were loose. But now the right wing has their own Hate Command Centers in right wing radio and faux noise. I feel it's just a matter of time before things explode in this country. And no one is trying to reduce the size of the raging fires of hatred. The leaders in the republican party who are in positions to condemn the hatred in their extremist base are doing nothing to stop the madness. In fact they are feeding the hatred by condoning it lest they risk their opportunity to get their votes. They couldn't care less if our country falls into civil war. It seems that is exactly what they want to happen.

[stuntcat]

135. yep.

100% right.

[stuntcat]

134. yep.

We think we've evolved, we think this was back when everything was in black & white, but humans are still the very same in their hearts.

[WI_DEM]

35. This one says it all...

[Kadie]

38. I was waiting for that one to be posted.

:D

It really does say it all.

[AsahinaKimi]

37. Fires in Southern California

http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Fast+Moving+Tea+Fire+Destroys+Homes+Montecito+JdaR84BAUlIl.jpg

http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Fast+Moving+Tea+Fire+Destroys+Homes+Montecito+gPMe6xJ9qe4l.jpg

http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Fast+Moving+Tea+Fire+Destroys+Homes+Montecito+RTRPrZQa4vHl.jpg

http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Fast+Moving+Tea+Fire+Destroys+Homes+Montecito+V07sNHoh3Y1l.jpg

[DBoon]

112. LA Riots 1992

[Behind the Aegis]

39. These....

The Holocaust:

from: Holocaust Memorial Album Honoring more than 1.5 Million Souls under 12 years of age that never returned...




Katrina:







Oklahoma City bombing:



Matthew Shepard:

[nonconformist]

50. That picture of the OKC bombing tears me up inside.

There are so many pictures on this thread that effect me deeply, but that OKC picture really gets me every time. Maybe because I was pregnant with my oldest son when it happened.

[WolverineDG]

60. That picture of little Bailey gets me everytime

as do the ones of the Katrina survivors.

dg

[Kadie]

41. A recent photo...

As a rainbow forms behind him, Jeff Key waves the flag at a pro-gay marriage rally on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City. Key and others were celebrating a federal judge's ruling that overturned California's Prop. 8 same-sex marriage ban.
Photo: Steve Griffin / The Salt Lake Tribune

[Lisa0825]

48. Now that is beautiful... and nature provided the rainbow....

I wish there were more *positive* iconic photographs in this thread... I clicked in hoping to be inspired, but most have made me sad. This one, however, is beautiful and hopeful.

[alphafemale]

130. Our side really needs to use "Our" flag like that more often

That is absolutely beautiful

[cloudbase]

42. From 1968

[DIKB]

43. I dunno...

finding out the story behind the photo really altered it. Just seeing the image w/o the context is what led the photographer to really regret it.

The last 3 paragraphs of the "Prisoner execution" section show the photographer's view:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Loan

It just makes me (personally) step back and say, "I can't judge this."

[GodlessBiker]

55. At best, it was a summary execution, not a particularly high ideal to be fighting for.

[DIKB]

105. Granted.

And that's why I phrased it as ME not being able to judge it. I have never been in war, nor have I been targeted by death squads.

Ideally I would support the Geneva convention's treatment of prisoners, have someone tried for war crimes, etc. However that comes from being an unaffected 3rd party. What of the possibility of justice never being done? (Using GWB and his sick twisted administration as an example)

And so I put my hands in the air and say, "It is beyond me. I cannot judge this."

[Greyskye]

87. Thanks for the background link

I learned something today. Context really is everything.

[proteus_lives]

63. The true story behind that pic will change your opinion of it.

[HarveyDarkey]

99. That's the one I first thought of

N/T

[Taverner]

44. I can't believe no one mentioned this one

I remember that as one of the first news pics I saw - I was five

[superconnected]

75. I don't know this one. What is this?

[Taverner]

88. Evacuation of Saigon - 1975

That was the US Embassy Rooftop

[mike r]

114. Actually it was an apartment complex nearby:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30755090/

Photographer behind iconic Saigon image dies
Picture of people climbing to helicopter became metaphor for U.S. failure

... A few blocks distant, others climbed a ladder on the roof of an apartment building that housed CIA officials and families, hoping to escape aboard a helicopter owned by Air America, the CIA-run airline. From his vantage point on a balcony at the UPI bureau several blocks away, Van Es recorded the scene with a 300-mm lens — the longest one he had...

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. This one...why choice is so important.

[ThomCat]

57. And why we will fight to make sure NOBODY succeeds in

giving away the right to choice. Not for political expedience. Not for votes. Not for a quick hit in the polls. Not as a compromise on some other issue, no matter what that other issue is.

A woman's right to choose abortion will never be sacrificed or given up. We will never allow the republicans to take it away, and we will never allow our party to hand it over.

:grr:

[lillypaddle]

126. Amen. nt

[Mojorabbit]

58. Yes this one deeply affected me

as a teen during the roe vs wade proceedings. I included it in an essay I did as part of a school project.

[hlthe2b]

61. While the context is somewhat obvious, do you have any

further information on the photo, its subject, and the facts that led to her death? I've actually never seen this one before. Our younger women should see this one and read up on the history that led up to Roe v Wade, for sure.

[ScreamingMeemie]

69. I should have thought to post a link. I am sorry

http://www.sapphireblue.com/25years/

Gerri Santoro died in 1964 after a botched illegal abortion in a Connecticut hotel room.

[hlthe2b]

80. Thank you... the family is courageous in letting the photo be used.

(At least, I am assuming they granted permission...) What a horrendous and senseless loss to her daughters her death must have been.

[tammywammy]

106. Thanks for that link

I already knew the story, but that site is a wealth of information.

[Duppers]

89. Tragic, so tragic.

Her daughter posts here on DU. Her handle used to be dancingAlone; it's now Control-z.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/dancingAlone

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Control-Z/1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1384115&mesg_id=1384115


She's a very dear person.

Here's a press article about her mom: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37967-2004Apr23?language=printer

[hlthe2b]

95. Really?! Would you pm me if you think of who it is?

Heavens... that is pretty amazing.

[Duppers]

97. sorry, I didn't see your post when I was researching

I found her! Love her dear heart!

See my edited post above.

-duppers

[hlthe2b]

98. Thank you... She certainly is amazing...

I am in awe of her dedication and selflessness (as well as that of her aunt and her own daughter)..

[Withywindle]

110. +1

This one has haunted me since the first time I saw it when I was like, 13 or 14.

[Greyhound]

53. Down the memory hole.

Anybody know where to find the ABC News photo of the Democratic primary debate in Chicago? I was going to put up the pic that ABC News ran on their front page, you know, the one where they photo-shopped DK out.

I think that was one of the first times where the M$M blatantly showed how they directed the primary, and is indicative of just who really rules America.

[mike r]

141. ABC crops out Kucinich:

[Greyhound]

144. Thank you.

This is the Iowa debate and he was cropped out, but the one I had and now can't find was from the end of the Chicago debate (the one in Barack's back yard). It was similar but DK was not cropped out, but actually disappeared. The site had put up both the original photo and the one posted side by side.

But the point is made in either case, thanks again.

[undeterred]

54. Robert Mapplethorpe's American Flag (1977)

[unblock]

59. this is an incredible thread. thank you!

[hlthe2b]

72. Thanks go to all who are posting these amazing photos...

Not only do they say so much in a single image, but they say alot about the DUers who find them memorable, important, and worthy of remembering and sharing. ;)

[WolverineDG]

62. Not a photo, but it is taken from a real incident

Very good explanation of "The Problem We All Live With" here:

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Problem-We-All-Live-With---Norman-Rockwell-the-truth-about-his-famous-painting

dg

[wildbilln864]

64. k&r! thanks, great thread! nt

[rug]

65. .

[Vinca]

68. OMG - what an amazing photo.

[superconnected]

73. What is this?

[hlthe2b]

74. baby being delivered via c-section from Mother's uterus...

[superconnected]

79. Cool! What a photo!

[rug]

101. It's a photo from 1999. The surgeon was performing surgery on a 21 week old fetus to correct a

spinal defect.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/thehand.asp

[hlthe2b]

102. I thought the hand looked pretty small for a nonemergency delivery...

--and typically the surgeon wouldn't be pausing before grabbing the baby from within the uterus to remove the placenta and get him breathing...

[RagAss]

67. Beyond it all.....

[Fumesucker]

70. This one does it for me..

[stuntcat]

136. beautiful Earth

amazing world my species is raping :cry:

I've never seen this, TY

[Fumesucker]

143. You're welcome..

I think that these pictures of Earth from space have had a lot to do with getting the environmental movement off to a running start, they really point out the fact that our planet is unique insofar as we can determine and our biosphere both thin and rather fragile.

I'm pretty sure this particular image came from the Apollo Moon program, taken by one of the astronauts as the Apollo capsule orbited the Moon, it really is a breathtaking sight.

[madamesilverspurs]

77. This one.

In fact, I used it on some buttons with the caption "the running-mate matters". Made a couple hundred of them and took them to a campaign event after the 2008 conventions. Started handing them out to people in line and got swarmed; the buttons were gone in less than five minutes.


-

[Call Me Wesley]

78. Recent ones:

[marked50]

81. This is why I DU

This is an incredible thread. Although the images are mostly heart wrenching, they show that the DU community is not adverse the seeing the pain in the world around them - How else can one be motivated to make the changes needed in humanity if one can not see those things that need change? The positives are there too but do you change those? No, but as our media has shown us we are moved by the negatives......

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

83. Scary Shirtless Guy -nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

84. On the +positive+ side....

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

86. Here are some...

[Beaverhausen]

91. I love this photo

I knew someone would post it! :hi:

[otohara]

142. This One On My Fridge

Love it!

[Brickbat]

85. Child labor photos such as these.

She's 11 years old.


Breaker boys.


What's frustrating is that while we solved much of the problem here, it goes on elsewhere unabated.

[DBoon]

111. That's Glen Beck's America!

Before the Progressives did things like banning child labor. Those evil Progressives that tried to destroy America

We need to become aware of our history and what we have accomplished

Otherwise it will be taken from us

[pnorman]

120. Several years back on DU, I had posted the top photo, with the below accompanying text:

"The golf links lie so near the mill, that almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play" Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn quotes (American Writer, 1876-1959)

Checking back in My Journal, I see that that poignant photo was no longer at that site. Thanks for finding it again!

[pnorman]

123. Here's where the top photo came from:

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

Great site, with many other child labor photos!

[Solly Mack]

94. ...

[hlthe2b]

96. I thought this one would make its way here...

though it is as hard to look at now as when I first saw it. How ashamed I feel for what we did under Bush*... (and I can only hope things have improved, albeit unlikely to have totally turned around)

[Solly Mack]

100. I still cringe...probably always will.

[Odin2005]

103. Grand Forks, North Dakota. April, 1997.

[DebJ]

113. My late grandmother lived through that flood. n/t

[Aristus]

107. This one always moves me:

The wounded Marine who ignores his own pain in order to reach out to a wounded buddy. Makes me cry...

[paulk]

108. this picture

captured the horror of war for me

[Seneca]

109. Afghan Girl

During the Soviet misadventure there.



We will never learn.

[HopeHoops]

121. They tracked down the Afghan girl as a woman a few years back, using her iris's for identification.

It has been a while since I read the story (and saw the "then and now" pictures), but I remember that she was doing well and I believe she's a mother now.

[Seneca]

138. I have seen those pictures

What struck me was how much she aged, due to growing up with war and uncertainty. Her eyes are still haunting, but nothing will capture them like the original picture. It is still the most recognized National Geographic cover of all time.

[hlthe2b]

140. Afghan girl, then and now

She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed before. Until they met again 17 years later, she had not been photographed since.
--snip--
The portrait by Steve McCurry turned out to be one of those images that sears the heart, and in June 1985 it ran on the cover of this magazine. Her eyes are sea green. They are haunted and haunting, and in them you can read the tragedy of a land drained by war. She became known around National Geographic as the "Afghan girl," and for 17 years no one knew her name.

Read the story at: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text

[XemaSab]

117. D-day

[MrScorpio]

125. The Marine Barracks Bombing 1983

This happened three days after my birthday

[lillypaddle]

129. Terrific thread

k&r

[gbate]

132. This is what I will never forget, as I saw this live when it was happening.

[ThomCat]

151. yeah.

The fear that day...

Calling cell phones, hoping...

Seeing the second plane hit, and then seeing the building come down...

And being so damned sure that so many people I knew were dead...

One of them survived. My friend and roommate. The most important one of all of them. She was so damned lucky! But so damned damaged for the rest of her life by it all, physically and emotionally.

:cry:

That day will never go away.

[unhappycamper]

133. Over Hiroshima 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945:

[-..__...]

137. Nanking... 1937-1938

Australian POW, New Guinea...

[HEyHEY]

139. Fucking scumbags.

I don't know how Japan went from that to what it is now so quickly, it's quite a turnaround.

[yowzayowzayowza]

146. Nov 2000

[Catshrink]

147. There was such hope then...

[Catshrink]

148. And though I hate to give her a nanosecond of thought or publicity:

[pinboy3niner]

149. That's classic! And I don't feel sorry at all for that turkey...

The gobbler in the back, I feel sorry for--not the turkey in the foreground. :)

[hlthe2b]

150. When you look up "clueless" in the dictionary.... it should direct

to this video. I found it hilarious and she never ever "got it." It made me wonder if poor little Trigg was not the real caretaker--of Sarah.

[RainDog]

152. kicked and bookmarked. thanks.

[stevedeshazer]

154. The moment it all went down. Thus started the decline of America.

[Touchdown]

155. Dust Bowl Okie mother.

[HEyHEY]

157. Well, it isn't iconic, but could have been under different circumstances

A reporter that used to work at a paper I edited got this after a mudslide.

[depakid]

158. 1948 election

[Rhiannon12866]

159. January 2009:

[Skittles]

160. dup

[MissHoneychurch]

161. Germany 1989

I was there and it changed my life


Leipzig, East Germany, fall 1989

September 30th, 1989 in Prague, Czech Republic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9EwNurawE

It is a video ... this is what it is about :

4500 East Germans had taken refugee on the area of the West-German embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, with a view to be permitted to leave for West-Germany. The video shows the West-German foreign minister at that time, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, standing on the embassy's balcony and telling the refugees that their departure permission had been negociated.

Translation:
"We're trying for a solution, but I don't want to give a statement now. First I'd like to speak to the Germans from the GDR who are currently at the embassy."

"We have come to you to tell you that today, your departure..." (rest is drowned in cheers)