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and the Berlin Wall. As an example, in 1997, Krenz was convicted and sentenced to 6½ years in prison for his role in the deaths of four escapees, although he actually served just under four years (13 January 2000 to 18 December 2003) before being released on
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Honecker's resignation as state and party leader, but held on to power himself for only a few weeks in the wake of the
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Michels, and Martin Wieser, "From Hohenschönhausen to Guantanamo Bay: Psychology's role in the secret services of the GDR and the United States."
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authority. The first session of the NVR convened on 16 March 1960; the 78th, and last, session convened on 16 June 1989.
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was created on 12 September 1960 to replace the office of
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National
Defense Council of the German Democratic Republic
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Defense Council of the German Democratic Republic
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