Fact check: Myths about Dresden 1945 victim numbers debunked
Estimate of the number of victims in the GDR After Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, Dresden became part of the Soviet occupation zone, which became the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR ...
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A look back: East Germany's first freely elected parliament
The election campaign in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was dominated by a single theme: reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The GDR parliament convened in the Palace ...
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Vladimir Putin's Early Life
In Dresden, East Germany he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later, Putin and 800,000 KGB officers were left shipwrecked.
Thirty-five years ago East Germany's first freely elected parliament began work
The work of the first freely-elected People's Chamber ended on October 3, 1990, the day East and West Germany were reunited. The parliamentarians in East Berlin had fulfilled the wishes of the GDR's ...
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East Germany's first freely elected parliament
The majority of East German parliamentarians now began working towards implementing what most citizens of the GDR expected of them. But, as Sabine Bergmann-Pohl recalled, the parties differed ...