BGuthrie Photos: DC -- German-American Heritage Museum -- Exhibit: Path to German Unity

DC -- German-American Heritage Museum -- Exhibit: Path to German Unity:

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Description of Pictures: THE PATH TO GERMAN UNITY
Travel back in time to the peaceful revolution of 1989, the fall of the wall, and the abolition of the East-German state.
Washington, DC: On display until December 31, 2015

Exhibition Summary:
This poster exhibit was created by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (The Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship) and the German Federal Foreign Office to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German Unification. The 20 posters, which were provided by the German Embassy, Washington, D.C., include contemporary photographs and information about events that document Germany’s path towards reunification. This poignant narrative is relayed to the visitor through the following chapters:
01 Title
02 2 October 1990: Last Day of the GDR
03 2 October 1989: Unrest Behind the Iron Curtain
04 Split in Two: Germany After the Second World War
05 Peaceful Revolution Against the SED Dictatorship
06 German Unification is on the Agenda
07 International Reactions
08 Unity and European Integration
09 The GDR Democratises Itself
10 The GDR People’s Chamber Elections: A Vote for Unity
11 Time for Diplomacy: The Two-Plus-Four Negotiations
12 Monetary, Economic, and Social Union
13 Pan-German Solidarity
14 The New Freedom: Via-Free Travel All the Way to Hawaii
15 A New Beginning: Germany and Poland
16 Two-Plus-Four Agreement
17 A State Seals its Own Fate
18 Common Challenges
19 Germany in Europe
20 German Unification-An Interim Assessment

Many leaders in Western Europe looked with skepticism upon the reemergence of Germany on that fault line of the Cold War. Nevertheless, 25 years ago, on September 12, 1990, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the US, together with the two German states signed the “Two Plus Four Agreement” which paved the way for the official Unification of Germany. We invite you to visit this exhibit and look forward to seeing you.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. UNITY_151010_008.JPG: The Path to German Unification
2. UNITY_151010_025.JPG: German Unification is on the Agenda
3. UNITY_151010_070.JPG: 2 October 1990: Last Day of the GDR
4. UNITY_151010_096.JPG: This photograph shows Sarah K., the last baby to be born in the GDR, a few hours after her birth in Leipzig on 2 October 1990. The press photo appeared in newspapers across the globe under the heading "The last scream of the GDR."
5. UNITY_151010_123.JPG: International Reactions
6. UNITY_151010_130.JPG: "Uncle spells it out: 'The West's economy comes first, and then the East's -- 'Yes, yes, to Paris first!' ". On 22 November 1989, French cartoonist Ferdinand Guiraud satirized the anxiety of French President Francois Mitterand (left) about the economic power of a reunited Germany. In order to emphasize the concerns in Paris, Guiraud presents Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (right) in a Prussian-style German army uniform with a spiked helmet.
7. UNITY_151010_151.JPG: Sorcerer's apprentice Gorbachev opens a bottle, releasing the genie of united Germany with a spiked helmet, uniform and claws. This is how a British cartoonist saw it in November 1989.
8. UNITY_151010_157.JPG: United and European Integration
9. UNITY_151010_180.JPG: Troops and armed civilians fighting in the streets of Bucharest on 28 December 1989 against supporters of the deposed Romanian dictator. He and his wife were arrested as they tried to flee the country and were condemned to death and shot on 25 December 1989.
10. UNITY_151010_187.JPG: The question of the alliance membership of a united Germany was a source of controversy in the first half of 1990. Its resolution would depend on agreement being reached by the four main victors of the Second World War. That is the subject of this cover picture that appeared in news magazine Der Spiegel in May 1990.
11. UNITY_151010_193.JPG: The euro symbol as defined in the ISO standard. The two parallel lines are intended to denote an emphasis on monetary stability.
12. UNITY_151010_198.JPG: The GDR Democratises Itself
13. UNITY_151010_209.JPG: The GDR People's Chamber Elections: A Vote for Unity
14. UNITY_151010_222.JPG: Time for Diplomacy: The Two-Plus-Four Negotiations
15. UNITY_151010_231.JPG: The victorious powers by Klaus Stuttmann, 1990
16. UNITY_151010_239.JPG: Monetary, Economic and Social Union
17. UNITY_151010_249.JPG: 2 October 1989: Unrest Behind the Iron Curtain
18. UNITY_151010_269.JPG: Split in Two: Germany After the Second World War
19. UNITY_151010_289.JPG: Peaceful Revolution Against the SED Dictatorship
20. UNITY_151010_314.JPG: Pan-German Solidarity
21. UNITY_151010_325.JPG: Characteristics of West and East Germans -- 1990 in the view of East Germans
22. UNITY_151010_328.JPG: Characteristics of West and East Germans -- 1990 in the view of West Germans
23. UNITY_151010_332.JPG: The Trabi had done its duty. Before the Wall came down, the waiting time for delivery of a new Trabant car could be as long as 17 years. This photograph was taken in East Berlin on 11 July 1990.
24. UNITY_151010_344.JPG: A State Seals Its Own Fate
25. UNITY_151010_348.JPG: Advancing with dignity ... to German unification. by Klaus Stuttmann, 1990
26. UNITY_151010_356.JPG: A New Beginning: Germany and Poland
27. UNITY_151010_380.JPG: New Freedom: Visa-Free Travel all the Way to Hawaii
28. UNITY_151010_387.JPG: Common Challenges
29. UNITY_151010_400.JPG: Germany in Europe
30. UNITY_151010_407.JPG: The countries that share the euro as a common currency as of 2014
31. UNITY_151010_419.JPG: German Unification -- An Interim Assessment
32. UNITY_151010_431.JPG: Something many West Germans do not know -- or do not want to know -- is that East German taxpayers have also been paying a 5.5% "solidarity" surcharge on their incomes since 1991 (7.5% until 1997).
33. UNITY_151010_442.JPG: A "German unification" triptych in a satirical cartoon by Klaus Stuttmann dating from 2006. After the passion of early years, he suggests, intra-German disinterest has set in. Three years later, the cartoonist warns that the conflicts between Wessis and Ossis should not be overestimated.
34. UNITY_151010_462.JPG: The exhibit was still being installed when I first visited it
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