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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dmitry Vrubel, the author of the iconic painting on the Berlin Wall depicting Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing East Germany's communist leader, Erich Honecker, has died in the German capital at ...

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 ...

East Germany yesterday moved to put an end to the most traumatic and agonising crisis in its recent history by replacing Mr Erich Honecker, the country's ageing leader, with Mr Egon Krenz, the ...

Margot Honecker, the widow of the former communist leader Erich Honecker, who has died aged 89, was reviled by her fellow East Germans as the “Purple Witch”, for her startling tinted hair-dos and for ...