Exhibition theme: Protest and Flight: Banner, "When will mummy be back?" [36/56]
OBJECT INFORMATION
Info
November 19 1989
Frankfurt (Oder)
Created By:
Hartmut KelmLicense:
Banners: "Political prisoners are still in prison, including my wife". "When will mummy be back?". The political movement Neues Forum (New Forum) advocates the release of all political prisoners.
Depicts
banderole,
child,
group of peoplePeople/Organizations
New ForumPlaces
Frankfurt (Oder)Text in image
Polit. Ge- / fangene / sitzen / noch / Meine / Frau auch
Wann ist / Mutti / wieder / da?
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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.
