Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

And also, of course, I knew that the German people, they're one, and would tend to consider themselves as one; and therefore they would consider the Wall as an enforced imprisonment. And I was right in thinking that way.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.