The Candlelight Revolution: The Freeing of East Germany (English Edition)

How did the Cold War effect those who were living through it every day? One thing that Peter Hoffman had learned in his few short years as pastor, was that the present government of his beloved East Germany was destroying its own people. Forty years of communist rule had left the citizens defeated, discouraged and cowed – just where the regime wanted them. But all this was about to change. In 1989, the Soviet Union’s control over its satellites was weakening, sometimes in violent and bloodthirsty ways. Peter and his fiancée, Krista Schweitzer, were working to make sure the violent riots that were taking place in Poland and Czechoslovakia would not happen. Surely, there was a non-violent way to produce change, and Peter thought he had found i