a day in making sure that germany continues to be a successful democracy and that was very much the message that i heard as well from a g.d.r. opposition activists i spoke to earlier this week we can take a listen to what else they had to say and their recollections of the 9th of october 1909 in this report. on october 9th 1909 kathleen hutton how it was in a stasi prison in lights in east germany she was just 20 years old on this day you could feel that the guards were already nervous and you could hear sounds later in the day close to the evening and what relate to crude few that maybe what we have heard. where the sound of 70000 people walking. among the crowd marching for freedom and democracy was that 18 year old opposition activist catalan model of.