Sources

  1. “Monday Demonstration”: Demand for Unification (December 11, 1989)

  2. The Collapse of the GDR Economy (January 11, 1990)

  3. View of the Stormed Headquarters of the Office for National Security (formerly of the Ministry for State Security) in the East Berlin Neighborhood of Lichtenberg (January 15, 1990)

  4. Individual Odor Samples Preserved by the Stasi (1990s)

  5. Shredded Stasi Files at Stasi Headquarters in Berlin-Lichtenberg (1990s)

  6. Storming of the Stasi Headquarters (January 15, 1990)

  7. The Storming of the Stasi Headquarters (January 16, 1990)

  8. Meeting of the Central Round Table in East Berlin (January 22, 1990)

  9. CDU Election Promises (January 22, 1990)

  10. Willy Brandt on the International Implications of Unification (February 5, 1990)

  11. “Alliance for Germany” Press Conference in Front of the Federal Government’s Guest House in West Berlin (February 5, 1990)

  12. Second German-German Summit in Bonn (February 1990)

  13. “Alliance for Germany” Election Campaign Posters in East Berlin (March 1990)

  14. Campaign Posters for East German Volkskammer Elections (March 1990)

  15. CDU Poster in East Berlin (March 1990)

  16. Members of the “Democratic Awakening” Party Handing out Leaflets at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (March 3, 1990)

  17. Election Event Sponsored by the “Alliance for Germany” in Leipzig (March 1990)

  18. Helmut Kohl at an Election Event Sponsored by the “Alliance for Germany” in Leipzig (March 1990)

  19. The Last “Monday Demonstration” in Leipzig (March 12, 1990)

  20. Volkskammer Elections: Rainer Eppelmann casts his Ballot at a Polling Station in East Berlin (March 18, 1990)

  21. Election Victory for the “Alliance” (March 19, 1990)

  22. Results of the Volkskammer Election (March 18, 1990)

  23. Lothar de Maizière and Rainer Eppelmann Arrive in Bonn after the Volkskammer Elections (March 21, 1990)

  24. Charles Powell on the Chequers Meeting (March 24, 1990)

  25. Charles Krauthammer on International Fears of Unification (March 26, 1990)

  26. “Sell Out” of the East – West German Antiques Dealer in Bad Kösen (March 1990)

  27. Lothar de Maizière’s Government Program (April 19, 1990)

  28. East-West German Banknotes (1990)

  29. GDR Citizens Protest the Proposed Currency Exchange Rate of 2:1 (April 5, 1990)

  30. Removal of Barriers at the Border (May 1990)

  31. The State Treaty between the FRG and the GDR on the Creation of a Monetary, Economic, and Social Union (May 18, 1990)

  32. Caricature: State Treaty between the FRG and the GDR (1990)

  33. Monetary Union: Sacks of Deutschmarks Arrive in Leipzig (July 1, 1990)

  34. Monetary Union: First Shipment of Western Goods at a Dresden Department Store (July 1, 1990)

  35. Monetary Union: Waiting to Exchange Money (July 1, 1990)

  36. The Economic and Currency Union Takes Effect (July 1, 1990)

  37. Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher during Talks with Mikhail Gorbachev in the Caucasus (July 15, 1990)

  38. Results of the Kohl-Gorbachev Talks (July 17, 1990)

  39. Heiner Müller on the Sell-Out of the GDR (July 30, 1990)

  40. The Volkskammer Decision on Accession (August 24, 1990)

  41. The Unification Treaty (August 31, 1990)

  42. Signing the Unification Treaty (August 31, 1990)

  43. Signature Page of the Unification Treaty (August 31, 1990)

  44. Two-Plus-Four Treaty on Germany (September 12, 1990)

  45. Germany Regains Full Sovereignty (September 12, 1990)

  46. Oskar Lafontaine and Wolf Biermann outside the former Stasi Headquarters (September 1990)

  47. Volkskammer Vote on the Unification Treaty (September 20, 1990)

  48. Helmut Kohl Meets with the President of the Commission of the European Community in Bonn (September 28, 1990)

  49. Richard von Weizsäcker on the Meaning of Unification (October 3, 1990)

  50. Ceremony Celebrating German Unification (October 1990)

  51. Celebrating the “Day of German Unity” (October 3, 1990)

  52. Dropping the Pilots, New Zealand Herald (October 4, 1990)

  53. Removal of the German Democratic Republic’s State Insignia and Flag (1990)

  54. Kurt Biedenkopf at a CDU Campaign Event in Saxony (October 1990)

  55. Oskar Lafontaine at an SPD Campaign Event in Bitterfeld (October 10, 1990)

  56. From these Ashes...Free at Last?, Telegraph Journal (1990)

  57. Election Campaign Poster for Alliance 90/The Greens: “Kohlrouladen” (1990)

  58. Differences between East and West (November 12, 1990)

  59. Draft Law on the Stasi Files (May 26, 1991)