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Leipzig Stasi Occupation Context

Germany · Politics / Socialist Unity Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1989

Egon Krenz4 December 1989

Leipzig · Politics / Socialist Unity Party

Opposition activists occupy the Leipzig Stasi headquarters as SED authority collapses.

Names involved

Egon Krenz

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