OUR COUNTRY IN THE 90S

In 1993, techno conquered our country and we turned night into day.
Halle in Westphalia became the German Wimbledon.
The White Christmas in Cologne fell into dramatically high water.
And hundreds of thousands took to the streets for humanity and for their future.
Workers at the Krupp-Hoesch steelworks lit candles and torches.
In the "Night of 1000 Fires", they blocked the B1 in Dortmund and fought for their jobs.
Werner Nass was Chairman of the General Works Council at the time and tried to prevent the impending closure and job losses of many colleagues.
At the beginning of the year, more than 300,000 people took to the streets in Essen, where they stood up for more humanity and against xenophobia with a kilometer-long chain of lights.
But in May, the house of the Genç family in Solingen was set on fire.
Five people died.
It was one of the most far-reaching attacks in NRW.
The perpetrators from the right-wing camp were quickly arrested - people in the state were shocked, shaken and ashamed.