Honecker, Former Prisoner of Nazis, Pays Dachau Visit
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DACHAU, West Germany — Erich Honecker, ending the first official visit of an East German head of state to West Germany, today laid a wreath of red carnations at a monument to victims of Dachau’s Nazi concentration camp.
Honecker flew back to East Berlin after a luncheon with Bavarian state Premier Franz Josef Strauss in Munich. Honecker, imprisoned by the Nazis from 1935 to 1945 for his communist activities, spent no more than half an hour in the Dachau camp, where he talked bri1701211257persecution.
“I wish you success in the fight against neo-Nazism,” Eugen Kessler, a former Dachau inmate, quoted Honecker as telling the group. “I embrace you all.”
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