Angela Dorothea Kasner shortly before her fourth birthday in 1958. Her parents had moved to East Germany in 1954 when she was a few weeks old.
Credit: Ullstein Bild – P.S.I. Bonn
Merkel volunteered to help Democratic Awakening, an East German political group formed shortly after the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, before moving on to Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union. The party used an image from those early days in a 2007 recruitment poster that referred to her mid-career jump into politics.
Credit: CDU – Michael Ebner/Meldepress – Creative Commons
As a spokeswoman for Lothar de Maizière (left), East Germany’s first and only ...
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