and originally secret Trading of East German political prisoners ("Häftlingsfreikauf") programme that operated between 1962 and 1989. Ludwig Geißel was...

Häftlingsfreikauf ("Prisoners' ransom") is the term used in Germany for an informal, and for many years, secret, series of transactions between the German...

of political prisoners, under a scheme which came to be known as "Häftlingsfreikauf". Although something similar had previously taken place involving...

as one of the West German back-room negotiators involved in the "Häftlingsfreikauf" programme, which involved East German political prisoners being released...

26 May Jörg-Peter Weigle conductor 2001 26 May Walter Priesnitz "Häftlingsfreikauf" negotiator usw. 2002 27 May Kurt Biedenkopf minister president 2003...

Trading of East German political prisoners for – in most cases – cash ("Häftlingsfreikauf") on behalf of the West German government, an informal and (at least...

ISBN 978-3-525-30083-1. Häftlingsfreikauf: letztes Kapitel, bundesregierung.de Jan Philipp Wölbern: Der Häftlingsfreikauf aus der DDR 1962/63–1989....

unconventional case in the context of the [still, in 1972] top secret "Häftlingsfreikauf" programme. A favoured theory extrapolated from these sources is that...

from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016. "Häftlingsfreikauf: Drei Milliarden D-Mark für Schalcks Kasse". Forum Deutsche Einheit...

released into West Germany as part of the Political Detainees Ransome (Häftlingsfreikauf) programme that had been operated between East and West Germany since...

was still imprisoned in a Cottbus jail. By this time the secret "Häftlingsfreikauf" agreement whereby the West German government purchased the freedom...

government for 50,000 (western) marks under the still highly secret ”Häftlingsfreikauf” programme, under the terms of which East German political prisoners...