History with Google

Search engine shows online exhibitions on the Wall and GDR

The online museum of Google since Thursday presented photos and documents on Wall fell, Revolution and life in the GDR. Under www.google.com / cultural institute , the Robert Havemann Society and the private Berlin DDR Museum will be showcasing selected archival footage and images of exhibits. On-line project to the political upheaval of 1989 so far 13 participating institutions from Germany, Polandand Romania. Google's Museum was founded two years ago.


For us as an archive, the Cultural Institute is a good way to show parts of our collection also people who cannot visit our house because they live far away or attending one of them would never," said Tom Sello from Havemann Society . Berlin's "Revolution Archives" provides, among other founding manifesto of the "New Forum" of the East German opposition for the first time and also several photos of the protest demonstrations on the 40th Anniversary of the GDR's founding on 7 October 1989 into the net.

The DDR Museum is participating in the project include a fictional diary turning on the effects of the peaceful revolution and reunification on the lives of the citizens of the GDR. The Polish History Museum documented in part the story of the "Solidarity" trade union.

All shows can be found at Google Cultural Institute in the new channel "The fall of the Iron Curtain." The database had previously in their contemporary history section documents the Holocaust, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, and to protest against the policy of apartheid in South Africa presented.