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Waldsiedlung Wandlitz

Waldsiedlung Wandlitz

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Waldsiedlung Wandlitz

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Location: Bernau bei Berlin, Barnim, Barnim, Brandenburg, Germany

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Lemmi alias Schlumpf

October 5, 2020

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Here you can get extensive information on the former forest settlement of the Politburo members of the SED from 1960-1990. Further interesting information can also be found on individual residential buildings

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Lemmi alias Schlumpf

October 6, 2020

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In the days between October 13 and 17, 1989, Egon Krenz, Günter Schabowski and other Politburo members living in the "Waldsiedlung" prepared the "downfall" of SED leader Erich Honecker behind his back. At night, Krenz and his followers sneaked through the "Waldsiedlung" in tracksuits to secret meetings. The Honecker family in house 11, but also the Central Committee secretaries Günter Mittag (house 6), Joachim Herrmann (house 12) and the Stasi chief Erich Mielke (house 14) were not to find out about it. Honecker, Mittag and Hermann resigned on October 18, 1989.
Source: Museumsverband Brandenburg e.V.

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Lemmi alias Schlumpf

October 6, 2020

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The former residential estate of the SED elite near Bernau has been a listed building since June 2017: The layout of the area has remained unchanged to this day and parts of the original furnishings have even been preserved in individual buildings. Of the 23 functionaries' houses, only the former domicile of Walter Ulbricht is in an almost unchanged condition.

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