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What a West German saw in Dresden in 1990

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Katja Hoyer
Jan 08, 2026
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1990 election posters in Dresden. Img: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1990-0214-026 / Häßler, Ulrich / CC-BY-SA 3.0

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, West German writer and journalist Martin Gross was fascin…

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