The 1989 Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig ignited the peaceful fall of the Berlin Wall
What began as a small prayer meeting in East Germany spiraled into a massive weekly protest that shattered the authority of the Berlin Wall without a single shot being fired.
On September 4, 1989, a group of brave citizens gathered at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig for the first of the Monday Demonstrations. They marched for democratic reforms and the legalization of opposition groups, chanting 'We are the people.'
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