Exhibition theme: Protest and Flight: A "Sunday Talk" in front of the Rotes Rathaus [16/56]
OBJECT INFORMATION
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October 29 1989
Berlin, Rotes Rathaus
Created By:
Jürgen NagelLicense: Not Creative Commons
As of October 1989, so-called "Sunday Talks" were held between the party and the people in different cities under the heading "Open Doors - Open Words". At the first "Sunday Talk" in front of the Rotes Rathaus in East Berlin on 29 October 1989, paticipants included Mayor Krack and over 20,000 citizens.
Depicts
camera,
coat of arms,
crowd,
meetingPlaces
Red Town HallOther items in this set
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.
Original Caption
"Rickety leadership tries its hand at dialogue."
