To the rest of the world, Berlin may forever be associated with the fall of the wall, but it was in Leipzig where the protest movement first gathered pace: hundreds of thousands of East Germans marched against the GDR regime in autumn 1989. A football-pitch-sized mural by local painter Michael Fischer-Art in the city centre marks the 20th anniversary of Germany’s “peaceful revolution”. The eastern facade is at the Leipzig Marriott hotel, between Richard-Wagner-Strasse and Brühl
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