Despite its repressive character, East Germany’s Communist regime has had a constitution for years that embodied most of the liberal concepts of Western democracies. Drafted in 1949, when the ...

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The compound contains the homes of East Germany’s Communist leaders, who like to stick together, and perhaps need to. In all the people’s republic, it is excelled in luxury—and remoteness ...

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About 70,000 East Germans protested in Leipzig on 9 October 1989 - weeks later the Berlin Wall fell. Many feared the communist police would open fire - but they held back. The crowd chanted "We ...

BERLIN, Dec. 11--Communist East Germany today decreed drastic laws to halt the mass westward flight of refugees crippling the worker force. The East German Parliament rubber-stamped the demand of ...