Interview granted by Erich Honecker: General Secretary of the SED Central Committee and Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR, to "Saarbrücker ... policies of the German Democratic Republic)
Erich Honecker was a communist politician and the last state leader of the German Democratic Republic from 1971-1989.
After the fall of East Germany, he fled to the Soviet Union but was extradited to West Germany, were he was accused and sentenced for high treason, cause he ordered border guards to shot at illegal border crossers.
He was released from prison for health reasons and died in exile in Chili a few years later.