East German elections results

Title

East German elections results

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

19 Mar 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:04:20

Description

Catherine Field reports from Berlin on the results of the first free election in East Germany for 40 years resulting in a victory for the Conservative Alliance whose policies include reunification. With comment from founder of the New Forum movement Jens Rich; Communist Party spokesman; Count Otto Leinsdorf, head of the West German Liberal Party; West German Social Democratic Party spokesman Klaus Berling. For Brian Widlake programme. Background noise in interviews.

Contributors

Catherine Field; Jens Rich; Otto Leinsdorf; Klaus Berling

Keywords

Elections; Political manifestos; Political parties; Germany; Political reform; Communism; General elections; Democratization; Reunification; German DR; CDU

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