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Germany Info: 15 Years German Unity (1269 words) |
 | On this national holiday Germany commemorates the process of reunification that was formally concluded with the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990. |
| As the call "Germany, united Fatherland" becomes ever louder at the Monday demonstrations, Egon Krenz succeeds Erich Honecker as the new secretary general of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and chairman of the German Democratic Republic’s Council of State. |
| United Germany’s integration in the foreign policy context was regulated under a separate treaty signed by the two German states and the four allied powers who defeated Germany in the Second World War. |
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Erich Honecker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (939 words) |
| He joined the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD), the youth section of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), in 1926 and joined the KPD itself in 1929. |
| At the end of the war, Honecker resumed activity in the party under leader Walter Ulbricht, and in 1946 became one of the first members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED), made up of the old KPD and the Social Democrats of eastern Germany. |
| Margot Honecker was the Minister for National Education in East Germany (1963-1989). |
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