People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Erich Honecker Erich Honecker
The long-serving East German leader of the walled republic
Political and party leadership · East Germany state institutions
1912–1994
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Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie
The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1913–1991
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Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt
A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1913–1992
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Helmut Gröttrup Helmut Gröttrup
From Peenemünde to Gorodomlya, the German rocket engineer who designed the conceptual ancestor of the R-7
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1916–1981
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Wolfgang Leonhard Wolfgang Leonhard
Youngest member of the Ulbricht Group who fled to Yugoslavia in 1949 and became a leading Western scholar of Soviet communism
Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
1921–2014
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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl Helmut Kohl
The chancellor who seized the initiative on the German question with a ten-point unification plan days before Malta
Political and party leadership · Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
1930–2017