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"by the regime": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 193.

refused to disperse: On the Leipzig demonstrations, see Charles S. Maier, Dissolution. The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton, 1997), 135–146; Wolf-Jürgen Grabner, Christiane Heinze, and Detlef Pollack, eds., Leipzig im Oktober. Kirchen und alternative Gruppen im Umbruch der DDR. Analysen aur Wende (Berlin, 1990).

"Europe as a whole": Quoted in Hans-Hermann Hertle, Chronik des Mauerfalls (Berlin, 1996), 71.

"regret at their departure": Quoted in ibid., 74.

another one hundred years: On East Berlin’s relatively small role in the early phase of the 1989 revolution, see Wolfgang Templin, "Gesamt-Berlin—Eine Fiktion?" in Werner Süß and Ralf Rytlewski, eds., Berlin. Die Hauptstadt (Berlin, 1999), 334–337.

"uncertainty, even fear": G. Jonathan Greenwald, Berlin Witness. An American Diplomat’s Chronicle of East Germany’s Revolution (University Park, Pa., 1995), 169.

"Don’t panic": Quoted in ibid., 171.

"to be here"; "matter of morality": Ulrike Bresch, ed., Oktober 1989. Wider den Schlaf der Vernunft (Berlin, 1990), 49, 9.

"could be a bloodbath": Greenwald, Berlin Witness, 176–177.

"worse than ours": Quoted in Maier, Dissolution, 155.

reached themselves: Günter Schabowski, Das Politbüro (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1990), 71–111.

"We’ve won!": McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 200–201; Maier, Dissolution, 156–157; "Wende und Ende des DDR Staates (3)," Der Spiegel, 41/1999, 77–109.

"Curse of the Pharaoh": Maier, Dissolution, 158.

November 4 rally in East Berlin: Greenwald, Witness, 242–248; Harold James and Maria Stone, eds., When the Wall Came Down. Reactions to German Unification (London/New York, 1992), 125–129.

"flee the Republic": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 203–204.

"including Berlin-West": Quoted in Hertle, Chronik, 141–148.

take place on November 9: Among the myriad accounts of this intoxicating moment, see, in addition to the above-cited works, Hedda Angermann, ed., Aufbrüche. Dokumentation zur Wende in der DDR (Munich, 1991).

past twenty-eight years: Schneider, German Comedy, 37.

proposed demolition of Wall for credits: Hertle, Chronik, 92–103.

Kohl trip to West Berlin: Klaus Dreher, Helmut Kohl. Leben mit Macht (Stuttgart, 1998), 455–457.

"grow with one another": Quoted in James and Stone, eds., When the Wall Came Down, 42.

"and with solidarity": Quoted in ibid., 47–48.

Round Table discussions": Maier, Dissolution, 168–184; Konrad H. Jarausch, The Rush to German Unity (New York, 1994), 75–94.

"delicate balance of Europe": Hugh Trevor-Roper, "On the Unification of Germany," The Independent, June 17, 1989. For an analysis of Western reactions to German unification, see Gert-Joachim Glaessner and Ian Wallace, eds., The German Revolution of 1989: Causes and Consequences (Oxford, 1992).

"too large and powerful": Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (New York, 1993), 792–796.

"much time": Quoted in Dreher, Kohl, 460. For an excellent recent study of German-Russian relations at the time of German reunification and beyond, see Angela E. Stent, Russia and Germany Reborn. Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe (Princeton, 1999).

"done in the past": George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (New York, 1998), 187.

American position on German unification: See Gerald R. Kleinfeld, "Die Verwirklichung des Unwahrscheinlichen: Amerikanische Aussenpolitik und deutsche Wiedervereinigung," in Wolfgang-Uwe Friedrich, ed., Die USA und die deutsche Frage (Frankfurt, 1991), 369–390. See also Charles Maier, "Reflections on the Day of German Unity," in ibid., 449–454.

"God’s blessing": Quoted in Dreher, Kohl, 458.

"creating a federation"; "goal of the Federal government": Quoted in James and Stone, eds., When the Wall Came Down, 33–41.

"not on the agenda"; "pressing political question": Quoted in Philip Zelikow and Condoleeza Rice, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), 124.

"on track": Quoted in ibid.

"definitely at an end": Dreher, Kohl, 489–497.