1989 (29 page)

Getting the coal delivered Berlin, 1982

East German guards in the ‘death strip’ (taken from the West), 1981

Keeping an eye out for his fellow citizens (death strip), 1981

Mayday 1984 in Red Square 1989

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY Big Brother is watching you! Moscow, 1984

Changing the Guard, 1987

Manne and Hannelore at Fasching (carnival) party in Metzer Eck

Tired and emotional on ‘lovely Rita’s’ leather sofa. Sign says: out of order

Metzer Eck: Alex at the bar, your correspondent on the wrong side of it

With the Bear (Uwe) German Unification Day, October 3rd, 1990

Knocking down the walls (Jackie, with Oscar, 2, and Patrick, 5, one week after the Fall of the Wall, 1989)

I spy with my little eye. The next generation finds the cracks in communism

1989 Leipzig protesters on steps of Stasi offices!

Protesters march in Leipzig, September 1989