Bøker av Harald Zieger

In September 1989, Egon Krenz, deputy chairman of the GDR State Council, was sent to Beijing to congratulate China's political leadership personally and on behalf of the SED polite office for successfully suppressing the "Counter-revolutionary uprising," better known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.This is the historical background of the story of this book. The military commander refused to follow the order to use lethal force against the protestors marching around churches. The protests increased, and the Communist Government of that part of Germany crumbled. The rest is history.But as outlined in Part 1 of this historical fiction trilogy, it could have come differently. The Second Row Communists took over. They installed the new Agency Office of Investigation and Recovery (OIR) to secure that takeover.What would this new Agency actually investigate? And what would it be able to recover? How would the Underground Resistance Movement develop under an additional thread by that new Agency? Are the new Central Committee members really going ahead and executing former powerful members of the Leadership of the Old Guard? And will the execution of these hated former leaders calm down the people's protests and reduce the turmoil in the nation so that the new power can get it under control?All these questions are answered in Part 2 of the Trilogy.

In September 1989, Egon Krenz, deputy chairman of the GDR State Council, was sent to Beijing to congratulate China's political leadership on successfully suppressing the "counter-revolutionary uprising" personally and on behalf of the SED polite öce.This is the historical background of the story of this book. The East German communists applauded the Chinese Communist leaders for the brutal massacre at Tiananmen Square. They considered at the same time suppressing the increasing protests against their own corrupt clinging to power using military forces against their own people. But those who were ordered to use deadly force against 70,000 demonstrators deny the execution of the order, and the rest is history.But it could have come di¿erently. Based on that historical fact, the story develops the alternative. In the ¿ctional development, the communist leaders install a new agency equipped with power outside of any law to cleanse the elite from corrupt members as a signal to the people that the new leadership is the solution. Do the people fall for it? How does this new agency get set up? How is it Organized? What people are chosen for the job?These questions will be answered in Part-1 of the book trilogy.

"If I board the wrong train, it is of no use running along thecorridor in the other direction." - Dietrich BonhoefferWhat if I did not board the wrong train, but I had been thrown into it? What if it takes me years to realize that the train I've been thrown into by decisions of generations of ancestors is traveling in the wrong direction? What if I find out that all my strife to realize my dreams are null and void because Dietrich Bonhoeffer was right? What if my decision to leave that train is a dangerous, even deathly, fight, yet my desire overcomes the fear, and I jump?I jump into a fight for freedom. And against all odds, I win?At a cynical moment, I could think I experienced life in bondage which came about as a result of the mistakes and errors of previous generations. And how that bondage originated, I knew from studying history.Now, I can experience the way of a nation in bondage. What a unique opportunity. But only if I were cynical would I think that.Comparing my life environment - a country I lived in - to a train seems a little odd, but when one thinks about it, it is comparable. If you are on a train, the engineer controls the speed and the stops, and the rails determine the destination. The only influence for a passenger is to pull the emergency stop. Or jump off the train, which is very dangerous. That is the situation of living in a socialist or communist country. That was true for 32 years of my life. Interested?