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	Egon Krenz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egon Krenz (born March 19, 1937) is a former German Communist politician, who briefly served as leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989 before the end of Communist rule.
		At Honecker's suggestion, Krenz was elected as the new General secretary of the SED Central Committee.
		Krenz also argued that the prosecution of former GDR officials was a breach of a personal agreement given by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev during their talks which led to German reunification.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egon_Krenz (953 words)

	Egon Krenz
		Egon Krenz (b March 19th 1937) is a former German Communist politician, who briefly served as leader of East Germany in 1989 before Communism in East Germany collapsed.
		Krenz was born in Kolberg in what is now Poland, and was re-settled in Damgarten[?] in 1944, when Germans were expelled from Poland following World War Two.
		In 1997, Krenz was sentenced to 6 1/2 years imprisonment, for the deaths of people who tried to cross the Berlin wall.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/eg/Egon_Krenz.html (232 words)

	Ex-E. German chief convicted in Berlin Wall deaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Egon Krenz, who labeled the trial "victor's justice," remained defiant even as he was taken into custody to begin serving his 6½-year sentence.
		Krenz, a Politburo member since late 1983, was security chief in 1989 when he succeeded Erich Honecker, who was dumped from the top job because of increasing unrest in the country.
		Krenz's defense lawyers had argued that he couldn't be held accountable for the deaths because East Germany lacked independence as a pawn of Moscow.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/08/26/germany-walldeaths.3-0.html (657 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 25 \| 1997: East German leader guilty of Berlin Wall deaths
		Krenz, 59, was convicted of instigating a shoot-to-kill policy employed by border guards against people trying to flee East Germany.
		Krenz, who always maintained that the court had no right to try him, stood impassively as he was sentenced.
		Krenz argued that he could not be convicted in the newly reunited Germany because he had been living at the time under the laws of East Germany.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/25/newsid_2535000/2535475.stm (482 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On December 3, 1989 Egon Krenz, the East German Communist leader, the ruling Politburo (East German Bureaucracy), and the party’s Central Committee resigned.
		Egon Krenz was born in Poland on March 19, 1937.
		Krenz was introduced into the government as he promised to provide East Germany with democratic reforms.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/t/h/tht111/GermanProject/egonkrenz.htm (177 words)

	Egon Krenz - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Eron Krenz (born March 19, 1937) is a former German Communist politician, who briefly served as leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989 before the end of Communist rule.
		Throughout his career, Krenz held a number of prominent national positions, but he is most remembered as the man who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		In 1997, Krenz was sentenced to 6 1/2 years imprisonment for Cold War crimes, specifically the murder of East German citizens attempting to escape the communist regime over the Berlin Wall.
	www.bharatgrid.com /mediawiki/index.php/Egon_Krenz (863 words)

	CNN.com - E. German leader loses Wall appeal - March 22, 2001
		Egon Krenz, 63, was appealing against his 1997 conviction for four shootings along the Berlin Wall during the Cold War, which he said violated his human rights because he broke no East German law by stopping citizens from escaping.
		Krenz succeeded his ailing mentor Erich Honecker for just a few weeks in the autumn of 1989 and opened the Berlin Wall in a desperate and ultimately failed attempt to shore up the communist regime's plunging popularity.
		Krenz was temporarily released from prison while the Strasbourg court dealt with his case.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/germany/03/22/germany.krenz (547 words)

	Verdict in Berlin Wall Deaths Is Upheld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Krenz's lawyers said that they would appeal the sentence in the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg, France, a process that is certain to be protracted.
		Krenz's lawyers have argued that the acts of another state, East Germany, cannot be judged by German courts today and that Krenz is the object of persecution that reflects the West's triumph in the Cold War.
		Krenz, who ruled for six weeks before the wall fell, served two weeks of the sentence before being released on bail.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/110999germany-berlin.html (479 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: East German leader freed from prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Egon Krenz, East Germany’s last Stalinist leader who allowed the historic opening of the Berlin Wall during a brief seven weeks in office, was released from prison on parole today.
		Krenz, aged 66, was paroled because he had served nearly two-thirds of his sentence, as allowed under German law, and has behaved well in prison, Berlin justice spokeswoman Annette Grabbe said.
		Krenz has maintained he was illegally convicted in 1997, saying that stopping citizens from fleeing the communist country broke no East German law.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2003/12/18/story126286.html (375 words)

	Egon Krenz: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		Krenz was born in Kolberg[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] in what is now Poland[Click link for more facts about this topic], EHandler: no quick summary.
		A cold war is a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, acts...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eg/egon_krenz.htm (1048 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Egon Krenz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Egon Krenz, longtime member of the Politburo and FDJ chairman, became Honecker's successor as general secretary of the SED.
		Egon Krenz, at 52, was the youngest member of the GDR Politburo, and ostentatiously so.
		On November 1, the Krenz regime reopened the border with Czechoslovakia.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Krenz_Egon_42460909.htm (535 words)

	Krenz, Egon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Krenz, Egon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pledging a ‘new course’, Krenz opened the country's western border and promised more open elections, but his conversion to pluralism proved weak in the face of popular protest and he resigned in December 1989 after only a few weeks as party general secretary and head of state.
		In 1997 a Berlin court found Krenz guilty of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of East Germans who had attempted to flee to the West during the period of communist rule, and sentenced him to six and a half years' imprisonment.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Krenz,%20Egon (205 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		A court in Berlin has sentenced the former East German leader, Egon Krenz, to six-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the killing of more than 40 people at the Berlin Wall.
		Mr Krenz arrived at the court house to cries of "murderer" from the waiting crowd.
		The trial of Mr Krenz and his comrades is likely to be the last high-profile trial of leaders of the former East Germany.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/news/08/0825/krenz.shtml (340 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| E German communist leader freed
		East Germany's last communist leader, Egon Krenz, is being released early from a prison sentence imposed for manslaughter.
		Krenz, 66, was convicted of being responsible for a shoot-to-kill policy employed by border guards against people trying to flee East Germany.
		Krenz won an appeal at Berlin's supreme court of justice, after a lower court ruled against his release.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3331565.stm (315 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Because of Europe's Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms specifically its Article 7, Egon Krenz argued in 2001 that he could not be held responsible or punished for the shooting of four East Germans who attempted to flee the former communist dictatorship.
		Thankfully, Krenz, the longtime second-in-command to Erich Honecker and, after Honecker's resignation, the last leader of the communist dictatorship, did not prevail with this argument.
		Krenz was sentenced by German courts to a six and one-half year sentence.
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	Text 2+4 Chronik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Krenz said that he and Gorbachev talked for nearly three hours about questions of liberalization and added, "We are ready to put the (Soviet) vanguard experience to use." His conservative predecessor, Erich Honecker, had been careful to distance himself from Gorbachev's perestroika policy, insisting that such a program had no relevance for East Germany.
		Krenz said talk of reunification is an "illusion" that would undermine "an integral aspect of a stable Europe.
		Krenz was a loyal member of Honecker's Politburo and he said, "I am not ashamed of this time." And as for any "mistakes" of the past, he said, "I would not want to blame Erich Honecker for what happened."
	www.2plus4.de /USA/chronik.php3?date_value=01.11.89&sort=003-000 (903 words)

	Egon Krenz Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Krenz was born in Kolberg in what is now Poland, and was resettled in Damgarten in 1944, when Germans were expelled from Poland following World War Two.
		In a desperate attempt to improve its image, the Communist party stripped him of his party membership in 1990.
		He was released in 2003 after only serving three years of it.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/e/eg/egon_krenz.html (268 words)

	Articles - Egon Krenz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Four months after Chinese pro-democracy protests were brutally surpressed in Tiananmen Square, a GDR delegation led by Krenz visited China where he praised the Chinese handling of the protests as a ´crackdown of a counter-revolutionary attempt.´
		However, the Central Committee unanimously re-elected Egon Krenz to the position of General Secretary.
		In an attempt to stem the tide, Krenz authorized the re-opening of the border with Czechoslovakia, which had been sealed to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Germany announced the results of the Central Committee plenary.
	www.izeez.com /articles/Egon_Krenz (841 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 7 \| 1989: Protests force out East German rulers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The mass government resignation is likely to have been approved by East Germany's leader, Egon Krenz, who is expected to select a new government shortly.
		Mr Krenz will be hoping the resignation of a discredited government may help stem the flow of people fleeing the country.
		In 1997 East Germany's last leader, Egon Krenz, was convicted of manslaughter over the deaths of people shot trying to escape to the West and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/11/09/cache/380039.html (379 words)

	Ostalgia: East German Nostalgia and Memorabilia
		That was decided by the Berlin supreme court (Kammergericht), as Krenz' attorney Robert Unger replied to an AP inquiry.
		Egon Krenz, the last GDR (East German) state and party chief, is a free man after barely four years confinement.
		He sees himself as a victim of German "winner's justice." From Krenz' point of view, he was not convicted of being jointly responsible for the shootings at the Wall, but of being a representative of the GDR.
	www.lermanet.com /cisar/germany/030919.htm (879 words)

	CNN - East German leader sentenced for Berlin Wall deaths - August 25, 1997
		BERLIN (CNN) -- A court has sentenced former East German Communist leader Egon Krenz to 6 1/2 years in prison for his role in the killings of citizens by border guards along the former Berlin Wall.
		Krenz, a staunch Communist who had praised Beijing for its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy student protests, had expressed regret over the killings.
		Krenz, a Politburo member since late 1983, was security chief in 1989 before succeeding longtime leader Eric Honecker as communist boss.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9708/25/berlin.wall.deaths (515 words)

	BERLIN WALL ANNIVERSARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The East German leader at the time, Egon Krenz, was informed that people were already jamming border posts at the wall on the evening of November ninth.
		Krenz is publishing his memoir titled "Autumn, 1989." He does not openly criticize Mr.
		When Egon Krenz and his reform communists loosened the travel restrictions on November 9th, 1989, they never imagined they would be swept away by a reunited Germany.
	www.fas.org /news/germany/991106-wall1.htm (548 words)

	East German's Sentence Upheld - CBS News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Egon Krenz and two former colleagues in the ruling East German Politburo, Guenther Kleiber and Guenter Schabowski, had asked the court to overturn their 1997 manslaughter convictions and sentences.
		Krenz led East Germany for six weeks during the turbulent autumn of 1989 and earlier was a top official in the communist regime.
		Krenz has said he would take his case to the European Court of Justice if the conviction were upheld.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/11/08/world/main69425.shtml (453 words)

	NewStandard: 8/26/97
		Krenz says he does not accept unified Germany's right to prosecute him.
		Krenz, a Politburo member since late 1983, was security chief in 1989 when he succeeded Honecker, who was dumped from the top job because of the increasing unrest in the country.
		In trial testimony, Krenz said he regretted the deaths, but blamed them on a "confrontation of the superpowers." Especially when it came to border and security issues, he testified, East Germany was forced to defer to the Soviet Union.
	www.s-t.com /daily/08-97/08-26-97/a06wn030.htm (777 words)

	Krenz Loses His Human Rights Appeal
		Egon Krenz, the last Communist ruler of East Germany prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European clients, recently lost an appeal to the EUropean Court of Human Rights which ruled that his conviction did not violate human rights.
		Kessler's lawyers claimed there was never a shoot-to-kill policy, but Krenz and Streletz took a different tactic in claiming that since the shoot-to-kill policy as not illegal under East German law that they could not be punished for instituting such a policy.
		The BBC reported that Krenz has claimed that he is just a victim of the Cold War.
	www.leftwatch.com /archives/years/2001/000057.html (170 words)

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