The DDR had good trade connections with other countries in the Warsaw Pact.
“Monday Demonstration” - Demand for reunification (Dec 11, 1989)
According to public opinion polls, after the fall of the Wall, an independent German Democratic Republic was initially favored not only by East German intellectuals but also by many East German citizens as well. But when East Germans compared their living conditions with those in the West, and when fears arose that the political system in the GDR would not undergo quick and fundamental change, there was a rapid shift in public opinion. The photograph below was taken at a "Monday demonstration" in Leipzig on December 11, 1989; it shows a Leipziger with a poster that calls for unification with the Federal Republic of Germany.
eople lose hope of freedom hearing about what happened in China they go to the extremes.
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
People lose hope of freedom hearing about what happened in China they go to the extremes.
In Leipzig they expect the same amount of violence as was used in Berlin but instead they triggered demonstrations all over East Germany that roped the scales and led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Fall of the Berlin Wall- 9th of November 1989
As the berlin wall came down this showed that the east and west had started to become an alliance. As it came down families that had been separated for several years had reunited again.
President Reagan and Chancellor Kohl
The President: ‘Helmut! I am sitting in a meeting with members of our Congress and am calling at the end of this historic day to wish you well.’
Chancellor Kohl: ‘Things are going very, very well. I am in Berlin. There were one million people here last night at the very spot where the Wall used to stand -- and where you called on Mr. Gorbachev to open this gate. Words can't describe the feeling. There were large crowds of young people. Eighty percent were under thirty. It was fantastic.’
“Alliance for Germany” Press Conference in front of the federal government’s guest house in West Berlin (Feb 5 1990)
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
