BBC News (October 12, 2009): The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is in November, but for many the process began a month earlier with a series of anti-Communist demonstrations in Leipzig.
The Wall Street Journal (October 5, 2009): East Germany's relatively strong economy had allowed its leaders to hold fast but new economic troubles, such as shortages in fruits and vegetables and other commodities, were making the pressure harder to resist.
In August 1989, there was one thing East Germans desperately sought: the right to travel freely.
Rewind: "Roger & Me" is released. 20 years later: GM files for bankruptcy (the second-largest industrial bankruptcy in history).
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