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Heinrich George | Helmut Kind | Karl Heinrich | Ewald Ernst | Kurt Müller | Alfred Weiland | Arno Wend | Helmut Brandt | Georg Dertinger | Max Fechner | Karl Wilhelm Fricke | Wolfgang Harich | Walter Janka | Walter Linse | Paul Merker | Sigrid Paul | Rudolf Bahro | Heinz Brandt | Jürgen Fuchs | Gerulf Pannach | Michael Sallmann | Hans-Joachim Helwig-Wilson | Bärbel Bohley | Freya Klier | Stephan Krawczyk | Vera Lengsfeld | Ulrike Poppe
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 Born in 1950, writer and psychologist Jürgen Fuchs was put through the Ministry of State Security's "operative" treatment from the time he was twenty. In 1975, he was expelled from the governing Socialist Unity Party (SED) and simultaneously, steps were taken to ex-matriculate him from the University of Jena. Together with his wife and newly-born daughter, Fuchs moved into the summer house of regime critic Robert Havemann. After protest singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann's forced expatriation and deportation in November 1976, Fuchs was stopped on his way to the East Berlin offices of the "Spiegel" magazine and arrested. He was then taken to the main Ministry of State Security (MfS) remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. He later described the months-long interrogation in his book "“Vernehmungsprotokolle” (Interrogation Record). Finally, in August 1977, he was expatriated and deported to West Berlin. He lived there until the collapse of the SED regime, providing whatever support he could for the burgeoning GDR opposition. Even though he was living in West Berlin, he was still under MfS surveillance for years and subject to their "demoralisation measures". He died of leukaemia in 1999 and believed the Ministry of State Security (MfS) might well have secretly arranged his exposure to radioactive substances to cause the disease. |
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