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18 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Milan TillichNovember 6, 2007

In the autumn of 1989 in what was then East Germany, thousands of people marched in the city of Leipzig in a series of protests that became known as the "Monday Demonstrations". The protests turned into a display of moral courage that would eventually come to grip both East and West Germany. Two men were responsible for getting the images of the demonstrations shown on West German television: Siegbert Schefke and Aram Radomski. From the spire of Leipzig's St. Thomas Church, they filmed the protests that would eventually come to be seen around the world. Despite observation by East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, they succeeded in getting their footage out of the country. People in East Germany followed the demonstrations by watching West German television. We report on a story played out in the run-up to the fall of the Iron Curtain and we find out what has happened to Siegbert Schefke and Aram Radomski in the meantime.

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