East German actor, Communist Erwin Geschonneck, 101
Posted: Sunday, April 20th, 2008 7:41 pmActor and communist who was mostly loyal to the East German regime
The stage, film and television actor Erwin Geschonneck was one of East Germany’s most popular performers. Brought up in poverty in Berlin, he became a Communist, endured exile during the 1930s purges in the Soviet Union, spent several years in Nazi concentration camps and was one of the few survivors when a ship containing thousands of former camp prisoners was bombed by the RAF at the end of the war. …
