6. 1. The Pan-European Picnic
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was an peace demonstration
held on the austrian-hungarian border in
Sopron on the 19 August 1989
it was organised by the Hungarien Democratic
Forum and the Pan-European Union
between 600 and 700 GDR citizens used this
opening of the ''Iron Wall'' to escape into the
west
the hungarian border guards didn't react
7. 1. The Pan-European Picnic
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the Pan-European Picnic applies as a
''Milestone'' to the end of the GDR
Erich Honecker the political leader of the GDR
wasn't very glad about the escape from the
GDR citizens into the west
before the picnic started millions of handbills
were printed and shared so that all people get
to know about the event
10. 2.The fall of the Berlin Wall
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was built in 1961 and was added to the ''innergerman border'' between the GDR and the
BRD, which was ''built'' 9 years ago to stop the
people
it was 1278 kilometers long and splitted the
BRD and the GDR
it was built all around the ''russian-sector'' to the
side of the BRD
11. 2.The fall of the Berlin Wall
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the Berlin Wall was component and symbol of
the ''cold war'', between the western alliance
under the leadership of the USA and the
eastern bloc under the leadership of the
UdSSR
the border guards from the GDR had the order
to kill everybody who tries to escape
so in 28 years between 136 and 245 people
were killed
12. 2.The fall of the Berlin Wall
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the Berlin Wall fell in the night from the
9.November to the 10.November after 28 years
of existence
the leader of the GDR planed a controlled
opening of the wall, because the people could
officially escape over other communistic states
like hungary into austria, and so they could go
into the BRD
Because of that they were scared that all
people escape and so they wanted to make it
legal to go into the BRD
13. 2.The fall of the Berlin Wall
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the press officer Günter Schabowski had the
duty to read out the new laws about the
controlled opening with some confinements
about the departure into the ''west''
but Schabowski wasn't informed about this
confinements and so he said that privat
journeys into the west are legalized
Everybody in the GDR heard that over the radio
or the TV and so thousands of people streamed
to the borders
14. 2.The fall of the Berlin Wall
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the border guards couldn't handle this much
people which all were streaming to the borders
so they had to open the borders for the GDR
citizens to go into the ''west''
at this time between 23.30 and 0.15 p.m
20.000 people went into the otherside of Berlin
so the GDR had no other choice then to open
the wall and build a new government with the
BRD
19. 3.Political Rallies in Leipzig
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the political rallies were demonstrations in the
GDR espacially in Leipzig to fight against the
GDR and the splitted Germany
these rallies were always held on a monday
and so they were called the ''Monday
Demonstrations''
they started on the 4.September 1989 and were
battled the whole autumn
20. 3.Political Rallies in Leipzig
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with the cry ''We are the Nation''
hundredthousends of citizens demonstrated
week for week against the political relations
the ambitions of these people were peaceful
restart and the end of the SED command
the government started to arrest some
demonstrates in the hope to stop it, but that
didn't stop the rallies
