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Exhibition theme: Protest and Flight: "November 1989 - Wir gehen auf die Straße" ("We're taking to the streets") [54/56]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 1989 - May 1 1990
Potsdam; Berlin
Duration: 07:33 min.
Created By: Christine Krüger

License: Creative Commons License

Depicts

banderole, Berlin Wall, Berlin Wall woodpecker, border guard, border strip, crowd, demonstration, dog, flower bouquet, joy, memorial, military vehicle, observation deck, omnibus, outside broadcasting van, protest sign, scepticism, teacher, Wall graffiti, Wall hole, warehousing, warning sign, watchtower

Context

informant, welcome money

Places

Brandenburg Gate, Dreilinden/Drewitz border crossing, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Kohlhasenbrück (Berlin-Steinstücken) border crossing, Postdamer Platz border crossing, Potsdamer Platz

Text in image

Wehrdienst? Nein danke!

Neu wählen - richtig zählen!

Leben in Freiheit - ohne Staatssicherheit

Zivildienst jetzt!

Volksbildung ohne Parteiideologen - dafür gute Pädagogen

Keine Ausgrenzung von Behinderten aus dem Stadtzentrum

SED raus aus Betrieben

Freie Wahlen / jetzt

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Ultimately, it was the citizens of the GDR themselves who brought down the SED regime. From the summer of 1989 on, thousands of East Germans tried to flee to the West across the Hungarian-Austrian border and via the West German embassies in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw. In East Germany itself, ever greater numbers of people supported the demands of the citizens' movements for free elections, freedom of the press, and freedom to travel, despite their fear of state repression. In October, mass protests, which now involved hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, spread across the entire country. Aware that their protest could no longer be stopped, people increasingly felt a desire to capture events on film.