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www.kahla.de Kahla ( German: [ˈkaːla] ⓘ ) is a town in the Saale-Holzland district, in Thuringia , Germany . It is situated on the river Saale , 14 km south of Jena .
From 1954 to 1990, 17 June was an official holiday in the Federal Republic of Germany to commemorate the East German uprising of 1953, even with the name "German Unity Day". [8] Since 1963, it was proclaimed by the President of the Federal Republic as "National Day of Memorial of the German People".
In February 1946, Kahle returned to the Soviet Zone of Occupied Germany, which he helped to build into a future Soviet Bloc state that would later be named the German Democratic Republic. Kahle became chief of the Volkspolizei in Mecklenburg [2] and state chairman of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in Mecklenburg. On August 22 ...
The Freiberg Germany Temple (formerly the Freiberg GDR Temple) is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), located in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. The church announced the temple in October 1982, ground was broken for construction on April 23, 1983, and the temple was dedicated on June 29 and June 30, 1985.
East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland [ˈɔstˌdɔʏtʃlant] ⓘ), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʁepuˈbliːk] ⓘ, DDR [ˌdeːdeːˈʔɛʁ] ⓘ), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990.
Plessa (Lower Sorbian: Plesow, pronounced) is a municipality in the Elbe-Elster district, in Brandenburg, Germany.. Following a redrawing of local boundaries which took effect on 31 December 2001, the municipality includes two additional settlements, and therefore now includes Plessa-Süd, Döllingen and Kahla.
Heinz Kahlau (6 February 1931 – 6 April 2012) was a German writer. [1] [2] He is remembered as one of the best known lyric poets in the German Democratic Republic. He wrote song lyrics, dramas and prose pieces. He was particularly well known for his popular love poems.
The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse or KdA) was formed on September 29, 1953, in response to the Uprising of 1953 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) which had occurred three months earlier, and was violently suppressed by the Volkspolizei (civil police) and the Group of Soviet ...