Audio and transcript at NPR. Snippet:
On Monday, the 9th of October, when we tried to leave the church after evening peace prayers, the square and the streets were completely flooded with people; people everywhere. And as this mass of 70,000 people with their candles and flowers trying to move peacefully toward the city center, I felt immense gratitude because no one shot at them. I also felt that the GDR that evening was not the same GDR of the previous day. Something huge and completely different had happened.
What I saw that evening still gives me the shivers today. And if anything deserves the word "miracle" at all, then this was a miracle of Biblical proportions. We succeeded in bringing about a revolution which achieved Germanys unity. This time without war and military might.
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