East Berliners greeting the motor cavalcade of honorary guests invited by the head of state and the SED, Erich Honecker, to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the GDR, 6 October 1989.
Quelle: ullstein bild/Bildarchiv
Goose-stepping: guards parade on Unter den Linden in Berlin to mark the fortieth anniversary of the GDR’s foundation, 7 October 1989.
Parade with flags and torches: on the evening before the fortieth anniversary of the GDR, members of the state youth organisation Free German Youth (FDJ) marched past the VIP stand, 6 October 1989.
In September 1989, 2,600 copies of this fake banknote circulated in East Berlin: forty quarks - 40 years of peace, law and order. The flyers were made using silk-screen printing and distributed in letterboxees and public transport.