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Bananas & Cucumbers
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The “my first banana” cover of German satire magazine Titanic’s November 1989 issue is easily its most famous. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and East Germans coming into the West were buying bananas like crazy, like the exotic unknown fruit of freedom it was.
The cover shows Gaby (upper right), fresh from the East, (”happy in the Federal Republic of Germany”), in a Western jean jacket, proudly...
Original article from http://www.tranzformer.de/blog/?p=1483
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