The Leipzig Demonstrations
Mass demonstrations in Leipzig triggered the collapse of communism in East Germany
Witness History: Archive 2014 · BBC World Service
October 15, 20148m 53s
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Show Notes
In October 1989, a series of huge demonstrations in East Germany's second city Leipzig shook the communist government to its foundations. It was the beginning of a process which would end in the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Martin Jankowski was one of the protesters.
(Photo: Martin Jankowski, photographed by Andreas Schanze, 1990)