【CUSY ROUNDTABLE】Follow-up information on Tobias' presentation; 5 pm today WLH 006

April 16, 2010

Tobias Kuehne

Summary CUSY round table presentation

 

German Reunification – a Country Still Divided?

 

Outline

1. Tiananmen Square and the Hungarian Leak: East Germany's foundering government
2. The fall of the Berlin Wall
3. Vacuum in East Germany: the road to reunification
4. October 3, 1990 and its Aftermath – a Country Still Divided?

 

Pictures and Videos that I have so far:

1. Erich Honecker, leader of the East German government: http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/images/30008390-r%20copy.jpg
2. Erich Honecker and Gorbachev exchanging Socialist Brother Kiss: http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-21730-galleryV9-eqef.jpg
3. Helmut Kohl, West Germany's "Chancellor of Unity": http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/time/3522-1.jpg, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F065000-0002,_Bonn,_CDU-Friedenskongress,_Helmut_Kohl.jpg
4. video of CNN's live coverage of German reunification festivities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kpqKBbdic
5. video of Vladimir Putin commenting on reunification of Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61w9Tqzxpfw&feature=related

 

there will be more pictures, especially of the protests, etc.