5 November (Sunday)
The first meeting between the General Secretaries of the Central Committee of the SED, Egon Krenz, and of the CPSU, Mikhail Gorbachev, took place in Moscow, 1 November 1989.Over the weekend of 4-5 November, altogether 23,200 East German citizens leave the GDR for West Germany via the CSSR. Up to three hundred people pass the Upper Franconian border crossing point of Schirnding in their vehicles every hour, instead of waiting for months for the various "organs" in the GDR to process their applications with an uncertain outcome and believing any statements to the contrary. And the stream of East German migrants does not let up; by the evening of November 8 - in only five days - the number of GDR citizens who travel on to West Germany via the CSSR is estimated at around 45,000.
An action group makes a public call for a Green Party to be founded. In its statement, it says: "The Green Party in the GDR is on the side of all the forces working for democracy and freedom through radical reforms in our country. It is ecological, feminist and opposed to violence."
In November, 133,429 GDR citizens manage to flee to the West.
