Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters extinguish a fire in a house where former GDR State Council Chairman Erich Honecker was once born. The birthplace of ...

Mural on the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery featuring Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker riding together in an East German Trabant. Peter Rimar/Wikimedia Commons On 9 November 1989, after a ...

The Olympic Order awarded to East Germany's former leader Erich Honecker is to be auctioned on July 11 ©Andreas Thies The item is part of a collection of medals and awards given to Honecker during his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Margot Honecker, the widow of the former head of East Germany, Erich Honecker (1976-1989), attends a celebration marking the 29th ...

A small funeral was held in Chile Saturday for Margot Honecker, the widow of former East German leader Erich Honecker. A steely politician in her own right, the 89-year-old died of cancer in the ...

KNOWN as the Purple Witch in East Germany for her tinted hair and hardline position, Margot Honecker, the wife of former East German leader Erich Honecker, was the most powerful woman in the communist ...

East German communist leader Erich Honecker had a difficult marriage with his wife Margot, new intelligence reports reveal, with both partners having affairs. According to a report in news magazine ...

But curious visitors to the long secret underground command centre will have only three months to inspect the site before it is sealed forever. Bunker 17/5001, located in a forest 25 miles north of ...