In East Germany, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. did not make the news until April 6. Here is the coverage from the SED national party organ Neues Deutschland.
In East Germany, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. did not make the news until April 6. Here is the coverage from the SED national party organ Neues Deutschland.
In East Germany, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. did not make the news until April 6. Here is the coverage from the SED national party organ Neues Deutschland.
On April 5, the East German news was almost totally devoted to the results of a plebiscite on the adoption of a new "socialist constitution" for the GDR, which likely meant that the news of MLK's killing was pushed back a day.
For more on MLK and the GDR, see this thread https://twitter.com/HistoryNed/status/952911438976253952
And for those interested in the 1968 East German constitution and the plebiscite on its adoption, check out https://historyned.blog/2016/04/10/more-than-just-an-oxymoron-democracy-in-the-german-democratic-republic/
More Than Just an Oxymoron? Democracy in the German Democratic Republic.

In 1968, East Germany went about adopting a constitution that would provide the legal basis for country’s state-socialist system. Rather than simply imposing this new document, as the ruling Social…

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