Exhibition theme: Protest and Flight: Solidarity campaign for Romania [22/56]
OBJECT INFORMATION
Info
December 21 1989
Weimar, Theaterplatz
Created By:
Klaus BergmannLicense:
A solidarity campaign for Romania at the Goethe and Schiller monument in front of the Deutschen Nationaltheater; After violent conflicts, the revolution in Romania ended on December 25, 1989 after the victory of the opposition and the execution of dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu (
Wikipedia-Artikel, retrieved 18 December 2009)
Depicts
group of people,
memorial,
protest sign,
signature campaignPlaces
WeimarText in image
Stoppt die Mörder! / Rumänien / braucht unsere Hilfe
Dem Dichterpaar / Goethe und Schiller / dem Vaterland
Konsum
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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.
