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In this short Cold War Conversations bonus episode, I speak with Jon Benjamin, who recounts his meetings with Margot Honecker, the unrepentant architect of East Germany’s education system and widow of GDR leader Erich Honecker.
In 2012 and 2013, when he was British Ambassador to Chile, he had three long meetings with Margot , third wife of longtime East German leader, Erich Honecker, and Minister of Education of the German Democratic Republik (GDR) in her own right from 1963 to 1989.
You can read more about his meeting at History Reclaimed here
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