She was born in communist East Germany, to a German mother and Iranian father, and joined the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) in 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Following the German federal election on February 23, a new party could officially enter the German parliament, the Bundestag ...

The new policy of the Comintern was to have disastrous consequences in Germany, where the rise of fascism posed a mortal challenge to the socialist ... of Hitler’s Nazi Party in January 1933 ...