Unchained Eagle: Germany After The Wall
By Tom Heneghan
Pearson Education, London, 2000
ISBN: 0273650122

Here is a selection of my reports from Germany in 1989.  Click on the book cover picture at the upper right of each report to return to this page.

• 15Jun1989: GORBACHEV VISIT ENDS COLD WAR, OPENS NEW ERA FOR WEST GERMANS
• 19Jun1989: WEST GERMAN PARTIES CHALLENGED BY FRUSTRATED RIGHTWING VOTERS

• 22Aug1989: KOHL OPENS 1990 ELECTION CAMPAIGN WITH FIGHT IN OWN PARTY

• 06Sep1989: TWO GERMANYS STRESS "BUSINESS AS USUAL" DESPITE REFUGEE CRISIS
• 09Sep1989: WEST GERMANY BOTH FAMILIAR AND FOREIGN TO EAST GERMAN REFUGEES
• 11Sep1989: EAST GERMAN REFUGEES FORCE BONN TO RETHINK REUNIFICATION POLICY
• 14Sep1989: WEST GERMANS SQUABBLE OVER RELATIONS WITH EAST BERLIN

• 05Oct1989: CRISIS MOOD OVERSHADOWS EAST GERMANY JUST BEFORE 40TH BIRTHDAY
• 08Oct1989: EAST GERMAN ANNIVERSARY ENDS WITH STREET CLASHES
• 08Oct1989: DENIED DIALOGUE BY PARTY, EAST GERMAN YOUTHS SPEAK OUT PUBLICLY
• 11Oct1989: EAST GERMAN REFORMERS SPREAD MESSAGE ON WEST GERMAN MEDIA

• 04Nov1989: EMBATTLED EAST GERMANY RELUCTANTLY CONCEDES TRAVEL FREEDOM
• 05Nov1989: CRUMBLING OF EAST GERMAN COMMUNISM PUSHES UNITY ISSUE TO FORE
• 06Nov1989: WEST GERMANS INCREASINGLY EDGY ABOUT EAST GERMAN INFLUX
• 07Nov1989: EAST GERMAN TV ASKS WHY PEOPLE WANT TO LEAVE
• 08Nov1989 : DAYS OF OLD-STYLE COMMUNISM NUMBERED IN EAST GERMANY
• 09Nov1989: EAST GERMANY CALLS CRISIS MEETINGS OF PARTY, PARLIAMENT

• 09Nov1989: EMBATTLED EAST GERMANY THROWS OPEN BORDERS TO WEST
• 10Nov1989: BERLIN TURNS INTO EAST-WEST FESTIVAL AS WALL CROSSINGS OPEN
• 10Nov1989: MASS JUBILATION AS DESPERATE EAST GERMANY FLINGS OPEN BORDERS

• 12Nov1989: BERLIN'S HEART BEATS AGAIN BUT FEW EASTERNERS WANT ONE GERMANY
• 28Nov1989: KOHL URGES GERMAN FEDERATION IN BOLDEST RESPONSE TO CHANGE
• 29Nov1989: GERMAN UNITY STILL FAR OFF DESPITE BONN PLAN TO ACHIEVE IT

• 03Dec1989: BONN PRESSES ON IN UPHILL STRUGGLE OVER GERMAN UNITY PLAN
• 11Dec1989: LEIPZIG PROTESTERS WANT GERMANY UNITY, SHOUT DOWN COMMUNISM
• 20Dec1989: TWO GERMANYS MARCH TOWARDS CLOSER BUT UNCLEAR FUTURE
• 31Dec1989 : BOTH GERMANYS FACE ELECTIONS IN HECTIC POLITICAL YEAR