Cold War Files: All Units: Events: Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig

on the evening of October 9, 1989, Leipzig witnessed the largest protest demonstration in East Germany since the uprising of June 17, 1953: seventy thousand people marched through the city center. The police no longer stood a chance, and they retreated in face of this overwhelming mass. Again and again, the decisive cry echoed: "We are the people!" It tells those in power that they have forfeited the right to act in the name of the people.

Source:www.chronikderwende.de