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#GDR #OTD 2001 – Death of Thomas Brasch, East German playwright who challenged invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
Poem by Thomas Brasch, a playwright who emigrated from the GDR to West Germany in 1976
What I have, I do not want to lose, but Where I am, I do not want to stay, but Who I love, I do not want to leave, but Those I know, I do not want to see, but Where I live, I do not want to die, but Where I die, there I do not want to go: I want to stay where I have never been.
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Ned Richardson-Little
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#GDR #OTD 1957 – Production of Trabant P-50 begins at the VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke in Zwickau. (1)
The Trabant had a two-cylinder, two-stroke engine with only five moving parts and a body primarily created from Duroplast – a plastic strengthened with resin and fibers. (2)
3,096,099 Trabants were produced in Zwickau, East Germany between 1957 and 1991. (3)
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#GDR #OTD 1989 – Between 500,000 and a million people attend Alexanderplatz Demonstration in East Berlin (1)
New Forum and several artist groups organized the Alexanderplatz Demonstration to demand political reforms (2)
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#GDR #OTD 1973 – Cornerstone of the Palace of the Republic – Palast der Republik – laid in East Berlin. (1)
Construction of the East Berlin Palast der Republik was completed in 1976; it opened in April that year. (2)
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#OTD in 1913 was born one of the greatest mathematicians and scientists of the 20-th century and, undoubtedly , of all time - Israel Moiseevich Gelfand. Gelfand’s contributions to mathematics are enormous: over 800 papers on a variety of
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#OTD #OnThisDay from Himmler's Appt Book, June 8, 1941: Himmler arrived at the office this Sunday morning and had an intriguing meeting with SS-Obersturmbannführer Bender at 1145.
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