the pictures from the church tower were all over the news. leipsic was closed off to journalists the $70000.00 demonstrators couldn t have known that foreign teams were capturing them on tape. one of the 1st to fall from power was the man who inhabited this sweet mika head of state security he could never have imagined that the whole world would now walk into his empire the safe at the back is where he kept incriminating documents about east german leader elie hanukah today it s empty. when you see rooms you realize how symbolic all of this was visitors from 40 countries came to express their admiration for the germans for managing to overthrow a dictatorship for overcoming their fear it was a sign for the whole world