Truths that East Germany held to be Self-evident.
East Germans may not have been using the language of "human rights" in the 1950s to push back at the regime as they would in the 1980s, but they were clearly rejecting the regime in its entirety, including its version of human rights (48-49). Erich Honecker, East Germany's leader from 1971 until the...
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Oxford University Press / USA
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