The Party of Democratic Socialism was a left-wing populist political party in Germany active between 1989 and 2007. It was the legal successor to the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany, which
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The Volkskammer was the parliament of East Germany. Formally, it was the supreme organ of power in the state, and its only branch of government, with all other state organs subservient to it. In pract
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…the party and the government. On 9 November 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, borders between East and West Germany were reopened and on 1 December 1989 the Volkskammer abrogated the constitutional provisions that gave the SED a monopoly of power in the GDR. On 3 December 1989, Krenz and the entire SED politburo resigned…
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 1990 0419 418, Berlin, Volkskammer während Regierungserklärung von Lothar de Maiziere
Protester, January 1990
Ballot for the 1990 elections (written text reads "Sample")