When this book was first published in 1990, it was welcomed as an extremely accurate, calm, and ironically skeptical look at the days of the turning point and the months that followed. At a time when the mood fluctuated between loud euphoria for unity and a glorification of the GDR, Thomas Rosenlöcher looked more closely and relied solely on his independent judgment. Reading his diary from the time of the turning point today, it becomes clear: it is one of the most insightful books we can read about unified Germany. With great credibility, radical honesty, and clever humor, Rosenlöcher describes a country in which we still live today.