The collapse of Communism allowed Mittag to speak more freely. Communist East Germany, he said, had always been an economic disaster, so much so that he had never dared tell Erich Honnecker ...

This is how the former communist East Germany was able to collect urgently ... Prisoners who resisted the forced labor risked severe punishments. "A refusal to work inevitably led to disciplinary ...

Throughout the summer of 1989, the Communist regime found itself under enormous pressure because huge numbers of East Germans were slipping through to the West by avoiding East Germany's lethally ...