Egon krenz biography samples
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307. Memorandum Get organized in say publicly Central Cleverness Agency1
Washington, April 25, 1988
EAST GERMANY: THINKING Memo SUCCESSION [portion marking crowd together declassified]
Summary
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Berlin Wall anniversary: The 'worst night of my life'
BBC News, Berlin
It's one of the most bizarre guided tours I've ever been on. I'm driving around Berlin with Egon Krenz - the last communist leader of East Germany.
"This avenue used to be Stalinallee!" he tells me as we head down Karl-Marx-Allee. "They renamed it after Stalin died.
"And over there was Lenin Square. There was a big Lenin statue. But they took it down."
He looks out of the window and smiles.
"The GDR [German Democratic Republic] built all of this."
Mr Krenz, a sprightly 82-year-old, is in finer fettle than the country he once ran. The German Democratic Republic - East Germany - no longer exists. Thirty years after the tumultuous events of 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mr Krenz has agreed to meet me.
Why Krenz loved the Soviet Union
Due to my poor German and Mr Krenz's lack of English, we're communicating in Russian. It's a language he knows well. He had to: the GDR was a satellite state of Moscow.
"I love Russia and I loved the Soviet Union," he tells me. "I still have many connections there. The GDR was a child of the Soviet Union.
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„No slight justifies voting for the AfD“
Berlin-Egon Krenz was the last Chairman of the State Council of the GDR. He spoke to us about the 9th of November, his life’s work, and German unity
Egon Krenz at E-Werk
Herr Krenz, how did you experience the night between the 9th and 10th of November?
For most people in both East and West it was a like a festival. For me, it was the most difficult night of my life. I bore total responsibility. Of those who were at my side that night, only politburo members Siegfried Lorenz and Wolfgang Herger and Secretary of the Defense Council Fritz Streletz are still alive.
How did you hear about what was happening?
Erich Mielke told me that crowds of people were moving toward the border, and wanted to know how we should react. We hadn’t followed Schabowski’s press conference, because we were all together in a Central Committee meeting, where over the course of the day we had passed the resolution loosening travel regulations. I had given Schabowski the paper that he referred to in the press conference. It wasn’t a note from the CIA or the KGB or any other secret service—it was a press release that wasn’t supposed to be made public until the next morning. Schabowski was simply supposed to explain our intentions.
Which he did…
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