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The Production of Historical “Facts”: How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9, 1989 Became a Convention

Opp, Karl-Dieter - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 231 (2011) 5-6, pp. 598-607

Summary This paper deals with the demonstration in Leipzig on October 9, 1989, an important episode in the history of the East German Revolution. It is generally held that 70,000 demonstrators participated. This paper shows that this number is clearly wrong. The paper describes briefly the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014609362

The Production of Historical “Facts”: How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9, 1989 Became a Convention

Opp, Karl-Dieter - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 231 (2011) 5-6, pp. 598-607

This paper deals with the demonstration in Leipzig on October 9, 1989, an important episode in the history of the East German Revolution. It is generally held that 70,000 demonstrators participated. This paper shows that this number is clearly wrong. The paper describes briefly the results of a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369637