Erich Honecker - The man who built the Wall

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Many thanks to Paul Webster for his support! Recommended books: The man who built the Berlin Wall – Nathan Morley - https://amzn.to/4dsbAxs Beyond the wall – Katja Hoyer - https://amzn.to/3X62bpB In German language: Waldsiedlung Wandlitz – Eine Landschaft der Macht – Jürgen Danyel & Elke Kimmel - https://amzn.to/4dN5lUz Used sources: Next to the books above, I used: Erich Honecker – Eine Biographie – Jan N. Lorenzen Der Sturz – Honecker im Kreuzverhör – Andert & Herzberg Pictures: • Erich Honecker 1976 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R1220-401 / Photographer unknown / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29621797 • House of birth in Wiebelskirchen - Von EPei, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24457817 • Honecker 1950 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-08583-0017 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5338813 • Honecker 1958 – By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-57000-0512 / Zühlsdorf / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5429617 • 40th anniversary GDR 1989 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1989-1007-402 / Franke, Klaus / CC-BY-SA, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5347481 • Edith Baumann 1946 - Von Deutsche Fotothek‎, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6548679 • FDJ logo - By Jgaray - FDJ, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3451322 • Margot Honecker 1967 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-F0714-0050-001 / Hochneder, Christa / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5433370 • Egon Krenz – By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1984-0704-400 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5423027 • Dmitry Ustinov - By Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110974657 • Pomerania map - By Svolks - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17448105 • Gestapo headquarters Berlin - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R97512 / Autor/-in unbekannt / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5368800 • Strauss, Schalck & Honecker – By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1990-0226-315 / Mittelstädt, Rainer / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5425218 • Honecker with Andropov and Brezhnev - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-F0417-0001-028 / Gahlbeck, Friedrich / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5433204 • Gerhard Schürer – 1982 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1982-1123-416 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5422690 • KPD flag - By R-41~commonswiki - Eigenes Werk http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de%7Dkpd.html, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16104447 • Das deutsche Reich - By kgberger - own drawing/Source of Information: Putzger – Historischer Weltatlas, 89. Auflage, 1965, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3414361 • Piotr Abrasimov - By Original Image ALDOR46This cropped extract: Charles01 - Cropped extract of File:Член ВС ГСВГ Губин И.А. с супругой Посол СССР в ГДР Абрасимов П.А., Зайцева М.И. и Главком Зайцев М.М.. Берлин 1983..jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39795652 • Women’s prison Barnimstrasse – By Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-12436 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5480528 • Wolf Biermann – By Marco Maas/fotografirma.de - https://www.flickr.com/photos/qnibert/3035298792/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8414789 • Helmut Schmidt – By Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F048644-0035 / Wegmann, Ludwig / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5456903 • Gorbachev & Honecker – By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1986-0421-049 / Rainer Mittelstädt / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5423406 • Beelitz-Heilstätten – By Chad W - welcome..., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2982246 • Boris Yeltsin - By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91861698 • Moabit Prison – By A.Savin - Eigenes Werk, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65074112 Corrections: 1:18 The map shows the Pommerania in Germany of today, however at that time Pommerania was much larger towards the east. 23:11 Andropov, not Chernenko, was head of the KGB.