Mon, Aug 29, 2005
"Ulbricht and the beginning" - After the founding of the German Democratic Republic on 7 October 1949, Walter Ulbricht became Deputy chairman under Minister-President and chairman Otto Grotewohl.
Mon, Sep 5, 2005
Erich Mielke was a German communist official who served as head of the East German Ministry for State Security, Stasi. A native of Berlin and a second-generation member of the Communist Party of Germany.
Mon, Sep 12, 2005
The East German figure skater Katarina Witt became the beautiful image of the GDR. Jutta Müller began coaching her in 1977. Witt won two Olympic gold medals for the GDR, in Sarajevo 1984 and Calgary 1988.
Mon, Sep 19, 2005
Erich Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989.