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The elections took place between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the reunification of East and West Germany.\r\n\r\nThis black lithograph on a yellow background depicts a large arrow made up of smaller arrows pointing in the opposite direction. Below is a text stating: 'Um an die Quelle zu kommen, muß man gegen den Strom schwimmen', which means  'to reach the source, one must swim against the tide'.\r\n\r\nAlliance 90 came together for the People’s Chamber elections. It consisted of different groups emerging out of the Citizen's Movement. These were: 'Neues Forum' ('New Forum'), 'Initiative für Frieden und Menschenrechte' ('Initiative for Peace and Human Rights') and 'Demokratie Jetzt' ('Democracy Now'). Later on Bündnis 90 became a political party. 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