Sources

  1. Protests during the Church Congress in Leipzig (July 9, 1989)

  2. The Hopes of East German Refugees (August 8, 1989)

  3. Opening of the Iron Curtain (August 19, 1989)

  4. GDR Refugees with their New West German Passports (August 19, 1989)

  5. East German Cars on Budapest Roadsides (Summer 1989)

  6. Tents on the Grounds of a Church in Budapest-Zugliget (Summer 1989)

  7. Founding Appeal of the New Forum (September 9, 1989)

  8. Hans-Dietrich Genscher’s Speech on the Balcony of the West German Embassy in Prague (September 30, 1989)

  9. Glasnost Now (October 1989)

  10. Erich Honecker on the 40th Anniversary of the GDR (October 6, 1989)

  11. Erich Honecker and Mikhail Gorbachev at the GDR's 40th Anniversary Celebration (October 7, 1989)

  12. Military Parade Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the GDR (October 7, 1989)

  13. A Dissident Describes Police Brutality in Dresden (October 7, 1989)

  14. Prayer for Peace at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig (October 9, 1989)

  15. Monday Demonstration in Leipzig (October 23, 1989)

  16. The Triumph of Nonviolence in Leipzig (Retrospective account, 1990)

  17. Egon Krenz, Last General Secretary of the SED Central Committee (late October 1989)

  18. Call for an Open Dialogue: Egon Krenz’s Government Program (October 24, 1989)

  19. Members of the “Group of 20” with Hans Modrow in Dresden (October/November 1989)

  20. Mass Demonstration on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin (November 4, 1989)

  21. Mass Demonstration in East Berlin (November 4, 1989)

  22. Mass Rally on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin (November 4, 1989)

  23. Opening of the Berlin Wall: Cheering Berliners on the Wall at Brandenburg Gate (November 9, 1989)

  24. The Fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989)

  25. “Welcome Money”: GDR Citizens Wait in Line in Front of a Branch of Deutsche Bank in Berlin (November 10, 1989)

  26. Flowers for GDR Border Guards (November 10, 1989)

  27. The Day after the Wall Came Down: Rally Outside Berlin’s City Hall (November 10, 1989)

  28. The New Forum (November 10-11, 1989)

  29. Warm Welcome for GDR Citizens in Lübeck (November 11, 1989)

  30. Crowd of People at the New Border Crossing on Bernauer Strasse (November 12, 1989)

  31. Hans Modrow’s Reform Agenda (November 17, 1989)

  32. Traffic at the Border Crossing Near Rasdorf in Hesse (November 19, 1989)

  33. Demonstrators Demand the Imprisonment of Honecker (November 20, 1989)

  34. Appeal “For our Country“ (November 26, 1989)

  35. Helmut Kohl’s Ten-Point Plan for German Unity (November 28, 1989)

  36. U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush’s Conditions for Unification (December 4, 1989)

  37. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Concerns about Reunification (December 5, 1989)

  38. Goals of the Central Round Table (December 7, 1989)

  39. First Meeting of the Central Round Table (December 7, 1989)

  40. For and against Unification – Demonstration on Augustusplatz in Leipzig (December 11, 1989)

  41. The Headquarters of the Office for National Security (formerly of the Ministry for State Security) in the East Berlin Neighborhood of Lichtenberg (December 15, 1989)

  42. SED/PDS Resolution for a New GDR (December 17, 1989)

  43. Helmut Kohl’s Welcome in Dresden (Retrospective account, 2005)

  44. Helmut Kohl in Dresden (December 19, 1989)

  45. Caricature: Helmut Kohl’s Ten-Point Plan, Die Presse (December 21, 1989)

  46. Demolition of the Wall at Brandenburg Gate (December 21, 1989)

  47. New Year’s Eve in Berlin (December 31, 1989)

  48. Video Message from U.S. President Barack Obama during the “Celebration of Freedom” (November 9, 2009)