In the GDR, a new code of labour laws comes into force, based on the assumed harmony between the interests of the Party, companies and workers.
10 January
1978
After the publication of the "Manifesto" of a so-called "League of Democratic Communists of Germany", an allegedly dissident group within the SED, the office of the "Spiegel" magazine in East Berlin is closed because of "continual and malicious defamation of the GDR and its citizens".more
