And subsequently, from Merkel's wiki page: Later, at the Academy of Sciences, she became a member of the FDJ district board and secretary for "Agitprop" (Agitation and Propaganda).
All just fun and games, of course... /s
It's astonishing to me that the woman even has the privilege of holding office in Reunified Germany.
It's not like the DDR won the war.
An entire generation of Communist dupes regurgitating mindless Marxist twaddle has to die off before Germany has a prayer of being safe.
Is there any evidence she turned on the Soviets? That she had doubts about the entire system? That she agreed with the principles of the GDR?
It's mind boggling to me that she could even stand for office. She has the status of un-convicted Gestapo officer, just a different war. Why weren't there trials for her and her ilk, like Nuremberg?