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| | East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hilde Benjamin, vice president of the supreme court 1949-1953, minister for justice 1953-1967, dubbed "red guillotine" for her relentless persecution of political opponents | | | On August 23 the Volkskammer decided that the territory of East Germany (including East Berlin) would accede to the ambit of the basic law of the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 1990. | | | The party exercised its leadership role formally during the party congress, when it accepted the report of the general secretary, and when it adopted the draft plan for the upcoming five-year period. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
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| | Germany - Political Developments since Unification |
| | East Germany, which permitted free abortion on demand up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, had a markedly more liberal policy on abortion than did West Germany. | | | Among other things, the two Germanys have had to enact uniform legislation, decide on what city should serve as their capital, and bring the former leaders of East Germany to justice. | | | In June 1992, the Bundestag, in an attempt to unify abortion policy, approved an abortion law--opposed by Chancellor Kohl--that granted a woman the right to an abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, provided she accepted counseling first. |
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http://countrystudies.us/germany/166.htm
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| | Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Germany (East) / Appendix C |
| | The East European deputy commanders in chief are the deputy ministers of defense of the NSWP countries. | | | In addition to the ministers of defense of the Warsaw Pact member states, the commander in chief and the chief of staff of the JAF are statutory members of the CMD. | | | Formulated in response to the crisis in Czechoslovakia, the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine declared that the East European countries had "limited" sovereignty to be exercised only as long as it did not damage the interests of the "socialist commonwealth" as a whole. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/germany_east/gx_appnc.html
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| | Erich Honecker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Honecker was born in Neunkirchen, in Saarland, as the son of a politically militant coal miner. | | | He was forced to resign on October 18, 1989, and was replaced by his short-lived successor Egon Krenz. | | | In 1976 he also became Chairman of the Council of State (Staatsratsvorsitzender). |
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http://www.hartselle.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Erich_Honecker
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| | Man, Women, Event of the Century |
| | Leader and leading theorist of the Chinese communist revolution, born in the village of Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China, the son of a farmer. | | | He was general secretary of the General Federation of Jewish Labour (1921--33), and in 1930 became leader of the Mapai (Labour) Party, which became the ruling party in the state of Israel, whose birth he announced in May 1948. | | | Expelled by the Ottomans for pro-Allied sympathies, he helped to raise the Jewish Legion in America and served in it in the Palestine campaign against Turkey in World War 1. |
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http://www.s-t.com/century/man4.htm
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| | Germany [East] Local Leaders |
| | 1990 Acting Oberbürgermeisterin (Head Mayoress) Ingrid Pankraz of East Berlin (15.2-23.2) | | | 1990-91 President of the City Council Dr. Christa Bergmann, East Berlin |
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http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Germany_(east)_local.htm
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| | CNN.com - Germany opens new Chancellery - May 2, 2001 |
| | With the inauguration of the building, "the move of the government to Berlin is finally complete," he said. | | | BERLIN, Germany -- The German government has inaugurated its new chancellery amid an ongoing dispute over its size. | | | Architect Schultes said his building was meant to generate "enthusiasm" for Germany's post-war democracy, reported the Associated Press. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/05/02/germany.chancellery
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| | Asia Times: The Koreas: Seeking advice in Germany |
| | As North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's special envoy, Vice Marshal Cho Myong-rok, confers with Washington officials, some of his country's diplomats and their South Korean counterparts have been quietly conferring with German officials and parliamentarians. | | | "Did you have a program for reunification?" asked Paik Kyung-nam, head of the South Korean Presidential Commission on Women's Affairs, in a recent conversation with German Family Affairs Minister Christine Bergmann, a former citizen of East Germany. | | | One frequent interlocutor of the North Korean diplomats is PDS leader Gregor Gysi. |
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http://www.atimes.com/editor/BJ10Ba01.html
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| | Demokratizatsiya: East Germany: The Stasi and De-Stasification |
| | Hundreds of workers marched on the House of Ministries, the seat of the government, and chanted their protests for five hours. | | | Named Kommissariat 5 (K-5), it was formally attached to the criminal investigation department of the Volkspolizei (the People's Police, or VOPO). | | | Shortly after Mikhail Gorbachev was installed as secretary general of the Soviet Union's Communist Party in the spring of 1985, he began to pursue his liberalization policies of glasnost and perestroika. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200407/ai_n9409113
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| | Uprising in East Germany, 1953 |
| | The arrest of secret police chief Lavrentii Beria, for example, was partly explained (at least for official consumption) as a result of his policy stance on Germany. | | | The crisis also confirmed for the Kremlin the need to bolster the GDR diplomatically and economically as a separate entity from West Germany. | | | On the American side, the uprising proved, ironically, that Republican verbiage about “liberation” of the “captive nations”, so prominent in the 1952 presidential campaign, was largely empty -- at least as far as near-term prospects for action. |
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http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB50
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| | Walter Ulbricht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Both his parents worked actively for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD). | | | A leader of the East German communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) from 1949 to 1971, he also served as Staatsratsvorsitzender (Chairman of the Council of State: head of state) of the German Democratic Republic from 1960, when President Wilhelm Pieck died, until his own death in 1973. | | | Ulbricht was born in Leipzig as the son of a tailor. |
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http://www.peekskill.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Walter_Ulbricht
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| | Commentary Magazine - Inside East Germany, by Jonathan Steele |
| | EAST GERMANY long constituted a veritable terra incognita to all but a tiny handful of Western specialists. | | | ...This is certainly the case with respect to Steele's discussion of East Germany's attitude toward the Jews... | | | ...And if, as Steele persuasively argues, East Germany has produced its own distinctive version of national Communism, that alone should raise the question of the relationship between it and the other German state... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V66I1P76-1.htm
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| | Harvard International Review: Ghosts of Berlin |
| | Most German political parties used the commemoration ceremonies to launch their campaigns for the October 21 mayoral elections in Berlin. | | | ELISA SCHAAR is a Senior Editor at the Harvard International Review. | | | Earlier in 2001, Berlin’s city government, a coalition of Germany’s two major parties, the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and the SPD (Social Democratic Party), broke down because of the city’s financial crisis. |
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http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/?id=945
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| | Wired News: E. German Olympic Dopers Guilty |
| | Prosecutors argued for a 2-year suspended sentence for Ewald and Hoeppner. | | | The court rejected that, but did order Ewald and Hoeppner to pay the court costs of some of the former East German athletes who testified against them. | | | The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the end of old system, and the Stasi secret-police files that were opened confirmed the worst of the suspicions voiced by Babashoff and others, including such ghoulish details as some women being ordered to abort fetuses that might have been deformed by the drugs. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37631,00.html
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| | USSR Czechoslovakia Intervention 1968 |
| | The KSC leader, who had been arrested on the night of August 20, was taken to Moscow for negotiations. | | | The outcome was the Brezhnev Doctrine of limited sovereignty, which provided for the strengthening of the KSC, strict party control of the media, and the suppression of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party. | | | This coalition was headed by the Ukrainian party leader Pyotr Shelest and included communist bureaucrats from Belorussia and from the non-Russian national republics of the western part of the Soviet Union (the Baltic republics). |
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http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/cite/czechoslovak1968.htm
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| | GuruNet — Content Map |
| | Leader of the Opposition of the Northern Territory | | | Leader of the Opposition of the Australian Capital Territory |
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http://www.gurunet.com/cm-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-7201
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| | SGI Quarterly January, 2002 - Portraits of Global Citizens |
| | The leaders of East Germany knew in their hearts that the peace movement was right. | | | For the most part, news reports feature only the declarations of government leaders. | | | I will never forget his discussion of the reasons for its fall. |
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| | activity 1 |
| | West Germany was supported by the United States, France, and Germany. | | | After World War II Germany had been divided into four zones. | | | American and British pilots along with France and West Germany came to the aide of the people through the Berlin Airlift in 1948. |
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http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/~thinklinks/Grade5/PostWar3/activity_1.htm
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| | Hungary Allows 7,000 East Germans to Emigrate West |
| | Hungary's Foreign Minister said there are 60,000 people in this category. | | | All indications were that the decision was wrenching for the Hungarians, who are among the leaders of East European nations in adopting some Western standards of democracy and human rights. | | | The official declaration said that Hungary had initially hoped to see the problem resolved between the two Germanys, but that negotiations had failed. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/091189hungary-germany.html
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| | The political arrangement between the (Protestant) Church and the State, as understood by the SED-regime, was that the Church and it's members would not engage in any political activities contrary to the political interests of the 'working classes'. | | | The overwhelming majority of the Christians in East Germany are Protestants, however, belonging to the 'Association of Evangelical Churches in the GDR' (ordered into several state synods). | | | These political and ideological reversals had far reaching consequences for years to come, since these new sources of Western Valuta became 'necessary to the national economy' of the Socialist state and thus influenced future political decision making. |
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| | Theology Today - Vol 21, No. 4 - January 1965 - EDITORIAL - The Church In the World |
| | The Convention defeated a resolution which called for the abolition of the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention which is the agency for social action study and report of the denomination. | | | This is also true of other countries in East and South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. | | | It states that final and satisfactory solution of the problem is not to be found in "Federal intervention, the actions of outside groups coming into the State by radical and lawless action within the State." The resolution was offered by Owen Cooper, a businessman and lay leader in the church, Yazoo City. |
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http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1965/v21-4-editorial3.htm
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| | JSU News |
| | East Germany's leadership developed an elaborate political mythology surrounding Thälmann, who was murdered by the Nazis in August 1944. | | | They did so by linking its existence to the legacy of communist leaders who had fought against the Nazis, or fascists, in the final years of the Weimar Republic. | | | Nowhere was this done more effectively than in two propaganda films, Ernst Thälmann--Son of His Class and Ernst Thälmann--Leader of His Class, produced during the 1950s. |
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http://www.jsu.edu/news/july_dec2001/11062001a.html
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| | Harvard University Press/The Last Revolutionaries |
| | After World War II, they became leaders of East Germany, where they ran a dictatorial regime until they were swept out of power by the people's revolution of 1989. | | | History: Germany / History: United States: 20th Century / Political Science: Communism & Socialism | | | In a compelling collective biography, Catherine Epstein conveys the hopes, fears, dreams, and disappointments of a generation that lived their political commitment. |
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/EPSLAS.html
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| | Harvard University Press/Dictatorship and Demand |
| | An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle. | | | Mark Landsman is an independent scholar living in New York. | | | Based on research in recently opened East German state and party archives, this book depicts a regime caught between competing pressures. |
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/LANDIC.html
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| | Economical Adapter & Great Product Reviews |
| | East Germany was generally considered to have the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc, but Kopstein explores what prevented the country's leaders from responding effectively to pressing economic problems. | | | In particular, he shows how decisions made at critical junctures in East Germany's history led to a pattern of economic decline and worker dissatisfaction that contributed to eventual political collapse. | | | Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. |
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http://rf-picardie.com/57/1.html
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| | The New Leader: The choice for East Germany. (As the Exodus Continues )@ HighBeam Research |
| | AS THE MASS demonstrations and the opposition groups that finally brought down Erich Honecker now direct their rhetorical fire at his protege and successor, Egon Krenz, there are signs that East Germany's Communist leaders and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev may have done too little too late to regain control in the country. | | | The New Leader: The choice for East Germany. | | | The above preview is from The New Leader, October 30, 1989. |
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| | GO.HRW.COM |
| | In 1989 East Germany opened the Berlin Wall, and East and West Germany were reunified in 1990. | | | Encouraged by Gorbachev’s liberal policies, the Soviet- dominated countries of Eastern Europe— Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria—turned out their communist leaders. | | | In 1989 revolution broke out across Eastern Europe. |
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| | Lokalkolorit - Lokalkolorit |
| | Encyclopedia: Workers Uprising Of 1953 In East Germany | | | Directory: Business: Consumer Goods And Services: Home And Garden: Furniture: By Room Or Item: Whole House: Germany |
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