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    autobiography entitled Der Mann, bei dem Honecker wohnte. His story was also the subject of the 2022 documentary, Honecker und der Pastor, directed by Jan-Josef...
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    Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic...
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    of thousands of media-informed East Germans set off for Hungary. Erich Honecker dictated to the Daily Mirror for the Pan-European Picnic: "Habsburg distributed...
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    armed wing. Its motto was "Shield and sword of the Party" (Schild und Schwert der Partei). The Stasi also conducted espionage and other clandestine operations...
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    für die Freiheit (eating sausage for freedom) p.201, 2011 Martin Honecker: Wege evangelischer Ethik: Positionen und Kontexte; Saint-Paul, 2002, p. 185...
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    Honecker that "we simply cannot start shooting with tanks," and tried to impress upon Honecker that it was "the end". After the vote to oust Honecker...
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    being held on stand-by in the vicinity. (Two days after the rally, Erich Honecker, the leader of the SED, was forced to resign.) The week after, the number...
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    Germany and greater human rights protections. 18 October 1989 – Erich Honecker removed as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. 9...
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  • screening". Sault Star, July 24, 2021. "Sisi & I". DCM Stories. Retrieved 24 August 2022. "Sisi und ich". Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved 24 August 2022....
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    of establishing a single, non-partisan youth movement helmed by Erich Honecker. However, this phase did not last long. In general, the period from 1949...
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