Within months, first Honecker and then his hand-picked successor, Egon Krenz, were swept from power.

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In 1992, former East German leader Erich Honecker arrived in Berlin to face manslaughter charges for deaths along the Berlin Wall.

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Honecker had spent eight months in Chile's embassy in Moscow.

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