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  • Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when he hoped to lead a coalition between the SPD and the successor party to Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party (SED), Matthias Platzek, the SPD governor of the East German state of Brandenburg, reminded people of Schumacher's example.

    The Lives of Nazis, the Stasi and Others Lorenz Maroldt 2010

  • It may lack the thumbscrews and ultimate despatch to Dachau or Belsen, but the attitudes and spirit which this sort of activity engenders is precisely that which obtained in Germany under the Nazis or in the former East Germany under Erich Honecker's Communists?

    Archive 2008-08-24 2008

  • It may lack the thumbscrews and ultimate despatch to Dachau or Belsen, but the attitudes and spirit which this sort of activity engenders is precisely that which obtained in Germany under the Nazis or in the former East Germany under Erich Honecker's Communists?

    More News From The STASI State 2008

  • Umm, what exactly were those "liberal circles" that were saying such nice things about Honecker's Stalinist prison state?

    Jesse Larner: Human Rights: Not A Partisan Issue 2008

  • The new East German government said harboring West German terrorists had been Honecker's "personal hobby," in part because the young guerrillas reminded him of his own salad days in the communist resistance.

    Bad Time For Terrorists 2008

  • Through the company's catalog, customers can order authentic sausage from the Harz Mountains, popular in Honecker's day, and handmade wooden GDR Christmas ornaments.

    Hello, Lenin! 2007

  • It would seem that our Russian comrades have suddenly become interested in Honecker's bomb project.

    The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

  • In addition, Comrade Honecker's alarm at the situation in Poland was very much in evidence during the conversation.

    Making the History of 1989 1989

  • In addition, I sought Comrade Honecker's views on how the congress was going and how the delegates were receiving it.

    Making the History of 1989 1989

  • Honecker's conclusion at the ninth SED Central Committee meeting to the effect that in view of the escalated policy of intervention and threats of the United States toward the states of Central America, the GDR attaches particular importance to relations with the Republic of Cuba.

    VISIT BY GDR'S DOHLUS, DELEGATION 1984

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