The Monday demonstrations were a series of peaceful political protests against the government of the German Democratic Republic. The demonstrations began in Leipzig on 4 September 1989, starting the P
The Monday demonstrations helped to bring down the Berlin Wall.
Interior of the St. Nicholas Church
Demonstrators with banners. This demonstration took place after the fall of the wall.
Installation on the City Hochhaus for Festival of Lights 2009
Peaceful Revolution
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The Peaceful Revolution – also called Die Wende – was one of the peaceful revolutions of 1989 at the peak of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s. It was a process of sociopolitical chan
Berlin wall falls, Brandenburg Gate, 10 November 1989
Monday demonstration in Leipzig, 16 October 1989
Queue outside a bank in Gera, on 1 July 1990, the day that the GDR adopted the West German currency
Otto von Habsburg, who played a leading role in opening the Iron Curtain