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<b>Erich Honecker</b> ([[August 25]], [[1912]] - [[May 29]], [[1994]]), was a [[Germany|German]] [[Communist]]. He led the [[totalitarian]] [[East Germany|German Democratic Republic]] (''Deutsche Demokratische Republik'', DDR) from 1971 until 1989. After the fall of Soviet, he was tried for high treason by free Germany, but eventually released.
Honecker was born in [[Neunkirchen]], in the [[Saar]], as the son of a politically militant coal miner. He joined the youth section (''Jugendverband'') of the [[Communist Party]] of Germany (''[[Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands]]'', KPD) in 1926. In 1929 he joined the KPD and went to [[Moscow]] to study at the [[International Lenin School]]. He returned to Germany in 1931 and after the [[Nazi]]s had come to power (''Machtübernahme''), Honecker was arrested in 1935. In 1937 he was sentenced to ten years for Communist party activities and he remained in captivity until the end of [[World War II]].
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