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- 1997 Nov 10 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Egon KrenzGeneral Secretary of the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party and responsible for internal security, and Chairman of the Council of State, German Democratic Republic (GDR), Oct-Dec 1989, relating to the response of the GDR government to political reforms in Hungary, and in the Soviet Union; relations between Erich Honecker, GDR Chairman of the Council of State, 1976-1989, and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991; the anti-government demonstrations in Leipzig, his succeeding Honecker as Chairman of the Council of State, Oct 1989; the opening of the GDR border in Berlin, Nov 1989; and the re-unification of Germany, 1990. 23pp
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