March 22, 1989
Letter, Egon Krenz to Comrade Colonel General Fritz Streletz
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Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Central Committee
House of the Central Committee on Marx-Engels Square . 1020 Berlin . Ph. 202-0
Member of the Politburo
Member of the Central Committee
Deputy of the Minister for
National Defense and
Chief of the Main Staff of the NVA [“Nationale Volksarmee”; National People’s Army of the GDR.]
Comrade Colonel General Fritz Streletz
S t r a u s b e r g
Dear Comrade Fritz Streletz!
Attached I am sending you secret material with a couple of requests from the Ethiopian side for support in their difficult situation.
Comrade Erich Honecker is mandating that you:
- review as quickly as possible the options for our support
- prepare an order for him where the method of transport is outlined: as far as possible by air and, if not by air, per ship
I am asking you to call me after you have gone through the material; so that everything else can be discussed.
With socialist greetings
[signed Egon Krenz]
Egon Krenz
Berlin 22 Match 1989
Appendix[1]
[1] Translator’s note: this appendix, apparently a military hardware request list from the Mengistu government, is not part of the Krenz papers in the SED Archives with the German Federal Archives in Berlin.
Egon Krenz writes to Colonel General Streletz about East German support for Ethiopia.
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