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East Germany's First Lady Unrepentant

Margot Honecker dismisses criticism over forced adoptions, GDR policies

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 10, 2009 8:43 PM CST

(Newser) – The wife of former East German dictator Erich Honecker loses no sleep over the policies she and her husband championed, including one that forcibly placed children of dissidents into other families or foster homes. “We lived good lives in our GDR,” Margot Honecker...   Read full story »

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