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Egon's sprung
East Germany's last communist leader, Egon Krenz, who was jailed for the state's shoot-to-kill policy against people who tried to flee to the West, has won early release after nearly four years in prison. Krenz, 66, had been serving a six-and-a-half-year term since January 2000 for his responsibility in the deaths of four dissidents who attempted to breach the Iron Curtain. "It is not an amnesty and not a pardon, we didn't want that," his attorney Robert Unger said. Krenz consistently claimed that he had been a victim of "victors' justice" in reunified Germany and was convicted as a stand-in for the East German regime as a whole.
That kinda seems the case to me. TGA may have a different opinion. I thought EGer went under because Egon was human enough not to roll over the protesters with tanks, like Honecker would have done. Not a great man, but not evil.

Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-12-19
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=22972