at the saint nicholas church, very young, right? police officers stand face to face with the demonstrators trying to talk to them. why are you here? the police officers are embarrassed and you can see that they are scared me. one of i'm well, i could no longer reconcile that with my conscience. and i was deployed as a tier go skinner offices. then i went and said that i wasn't reliable for the job as to those because i couldn't reconcile it morally with my conscience. the it's a they specifically said to us now on monday morning on the 9th. the demonstrators don't stand a chance today. we have enough power. today we have enough equipment today. we end the whole thing. on october 9th, after monday's prayers for peace, 70000 people took to the streets and live sick. if this new cat had sounded the combat alert the army was on standby, the visa is a situation in leipzig, was highly explosive, because the state wanted to put an end to all these demonstrations. mark le berg is yeah, they had pulled together the riots. police, such as com

he was seeing history in the making the mass prayers for peace and the saint nicholas church. after leaving the church, the participants carried banners demanding freedom of travel, and calling for changing society. state security tore down the banners a few days later in hungry the cage door. finally opened the hun, gary and government decided to allow g d. r. citizens to leave for the west without consulting moscow or east berlin. first, my stomach pains or signal, i can't go on like this. i want to get out. i want to close my eyes and ears. a screen shot to toll out, or even leave stones again. is it better to sleep? escaped the only way the people suddenly realized that, okay, the wall might be from edible, stale, and people must still being shot, trying to get over it. so you them why, why, why i'm trying go over the wall. why even bother to have faith papers? why bother to put in an official uh, application to leave the country when you can just kinda hungry and move across the border into austria from the go wherever you want. and the well, the deep mile re months depar

this is part of a series of exhibitions arranged with berlin's museum foundation at saint nicholas church. now, a museum. there are 2 exhibitions on various aspects of colonialism. and it's the legacy, including who is honored or ignored in european museums. while we really hope the memorization commemoration of colonial, but also anti colonialist 3 in europe. and in germany, we chose to double in conference with sort of that it moves more into the main stream into the center of society and becomes sort of like normal part of memory culture that gets acknowledged and that ultimately finds its way into the curriculum that hasn't gone very far yet, so we hope that in a way, also to accept that this happened to you and not to be in denial because brought a society is a burden. society is also in denial. on the consequences of colonialism. the 2024 berlin advocate conference concluded with strong demands from the panel of experts on issues ranging from human rights to trade as a call for you a p, and pause to account for the colonial legacies today. not joined by default following journalist