German History ° The end of the Cold War - The end of the GDR ° From the perspective of the SED

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Siegfried Thomas (1938 *): The end of the GDR from the perspective of the SED
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Mr. Thomas was a career officer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). On August 31, 1988 he was released from the National People's Army (NVA). He is looking for new work. As a political employee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In the video he shares his memories and experiences. His view of the GDR and the political responsibility from 1989 onwards through reunification.
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The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) was a Marxist-Leninist party that emerged in 1946 in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany and the four-sector city of Berlin from the forced unification of the SPD and KPD and subsequently developed under Soviet influence into the cadre and state party of the GDR, founded in 1949 . Since the constitution of the GDR laid down the SED's claim to leadership since 1968 and its nomenclature cadre penetrated the organs of all three powers, legislative, executive and judicial, the political system of the GDR was de facto a one-party rule of the SED. In addition to the SED, there were also a few bloc parties that were supposed to give the appearance of a multi-party democracy.
In the course of the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989/90, the SED lost its position as the ruling state party, gave itself a new program and, in December 1989, initially renamed itself the Socialist Unity Party of Germany - Party of Democratic Socialism (SED-PDS), on February 4, 1990 then to the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). In 2007, through merging with Work & Social Justice - Die Wahlalternative (WASG), the party Die Linke emerged.
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