Exhibition theme: Protest and Flight: Protest sign: "Have you already forgotten Chernobyl?" [23/56]
OBJECT INFORMATION
Info
February 6 1990
Weimar
Created By:
Klaus BergmannLicense:
From the Set
Large protests took place in Weimar every Tuesday between 24 October 1989 and 6 February 1990.
Depicts
demonstration,
group of people,
handmade medium,
protest sign,
youthPlaces
WeimarText in image
Tschernobyl / Schon vergessen? / Atomkraft - nein danke! / Wir fordern den sofortigen Baustop der KKW's / bei Stendal und den vollständigen Ausstieg aus / Atomenergie / [...]
Other 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.
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