BERLIN - A Berlin court has convicted Alexander Schalck Golodkowski, the secret police colonel whose shady hard currency deals kept communist East Germany afloat, for Cold War arms smuggling offences. Schalck was given a one year suspended sentence for arranging the import of guns and night vision devices worth 8.5 million marks ($5.70 million) from former West Germany to East Germany.
Arms smuggler jailed in Berlin
BERLIN - A Berlin court has convicted Alexander Schalck Golodkowski, the secret police colonel whose shady hard currency deals…
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