Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
... Conny Henkel, 43, a care worker who grew up in the old communist republic. The building, nicknamed Erich’s Lamp Shop for the hundreds of Bohemian glass chandeliers that glittered above the head of the communist chief Erich Honecker and his cronies, has now become a gaping cavity at the heart of urban Berlin. Arguments over the design are likely to rage until the German parliament...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
Guns that once belonged to the former East German leader Erich Honecker are to be sold at auction in Germany.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
Weapons that once belonged to the former East German leader Erich Honecker are to be sold at auction in Germany.
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
... a conversation he was having at the auction to sell the trinkets of former East German leader Erich Honecker in the German city of Erfurt.The Russian confessed:"I am interested in buying gunners."Available at the auction were some weapons once owned by Mr Honecker, including a Walther pistol that was allegedly used by Erich Mielke - a notorious Stasi police chief - to...
Conservative Scalawag (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
Guns that onced belonged to Erich Honecker,former Eat Germany leader, are going up for sell. If I had the money, wouldn't mind having one or two of them.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
East German history continues to arouse controversy EVERY German schoolchild learns to revile Hitler, but what about Erich Honecker, boss of communist East Germany? He was not a dictator, or so most teenagers from eastern Germany seem to think. And the dreaded Stasi, which jailed and tortured citizens who stepped out of line? Just an intelligence service, say young easterners. These...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
The pupils were then ordered into a classroom decked out with Communist Party flags, a monochrome portrait of Erich Honecker, the last East German leader, on the wall and the slogan "We Love The German Democratic Republic" on the blackboard. All, except one, who was supposed to represent one of the few dissidents opposed to the regime, had to don the blue neckerchiefs of the Communist...
