How the End of East Germany Began The end of East Germany was ushered in by massive protests across the country. But opposition to the communist dictatorship started with a whisper. A new exhibition in Berlin documents the early days of dissent that began in the spring of 1989 and culminated with the fall of the Wall that November. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,623492,00.html#ref=nlint