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10.2K subscribers. Subscribed. 451. 13K views 1 year ago. A short video about Erich Honecker (1912-1994) the former General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the German...
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Feb 22, 2017 · 1.39K subscribers. Subscribed. 640. 79K views 7 years ago. During month of the workers, May 1983; features a warm up by a young Egon Krenz as leader of the FDJ ...more.
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Nov 26, 2014 · 8.5K views 9 years ago. Erich Honecker (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German politician who, as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, led ...
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Jul 29, 2017 · Erich Honecker's arrest: 25 years later. 07/29/2017. From the throne to jail: Erich Honecker was hunted, homeless, exiled and jailed in his last years of life. The former East German...
This short documentary describes the political career of Erich Honecker, who succeeded Walter Ulbricht as First Secretary of the SED on May 3, 1971, and later also became head of state of the German Democratic Republic.
May 25, 2024 · See all videos for this article. He was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1946 and was one of the prime movers behind the fusion of the Communist and Social Democratic parties in East Germany into the newly formed SED. In 1961 he was put in charge of building the Berlin Wall.
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The East German politburo and leader Erich Honecker, however, categorically ruled out reforms in the GDR. The power of (Western) media. Unsurprisingly, GDR television did not cover Leipzig's...