Berliner Zeitung, 23 April 1949, p. 2: report 'Frieden – Grundlage des Glücks' on a rally in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast supporting the Paris/Prague peace congresses. DFD chair Elli Schmidt holds up the women of Indonesia, Vietnam and China as the example for German women to struggle, not merely long, for peace. Ind
Berliner Zeitung, 7 March 1952, p. 8. Report 'Mit tapferen Herzen und fleißigen Händen' on the DFD/FDGB reception for 300 Berlin women activists ahead of International Women's Day. Indonesia appears only in passing: Darmini, 'the black-haired Indonesian woman' who has lived in Berlin for some months, is among IDFF gues
Berliner Zeitung, 14 March 1952, p. 2: "Die herrlichste Sache der Welt...", a reception report in which women from five countries welcome the Soviet draft peace treaty for Germany. A young Indonesian woman, Darmini, about to return home, says Indonesia's people value cooperation with Germany and await the treaty. Indon
Berliner Zeitung, 11 April 1954, p. 2. The relevant item is a one-sentence news brief in the page's digest column: thousands of women gave the Soviet women's delegation a warm reception in Surakarta, where it is on a study visit to Indonesia. No Indonesian organisation or person is named, and no Gerwani mention; the pa
Berliner Zeitung, 13 February 1960, p. 5: short ADN/EB item 'Zwischenaufenthalt in Burma'. DFD chair Ilse Thiele, returning from Indonesia where she attended the WIDF (IDFF) bureau session and the Indonesian Peace Congress, stopped briefly in Rangoon and discussed the position of women in the GDR with the Burmese parli
Berliner Zeitung, 28 October 1964, p. 5: ADN report 'IDFF ruft die Frauen der Welt' on the WIDF Council session in Sofia. Ilse Thiele (DFD) was elected one of four new vice-presidents; Freda Brown (Australia), Vilma Espín (Cuba) and Umi Sardjono (Indonesia) were confirmed as further vice-presidents. The council called
Page 5 of the East Berlin Berliner Zeitung, 24 Feb 1966, with a short article 'Anklage unhaltbar' and an ADN item on the Jakarta military trial of PKI Politburo member Njono, sentenced to death on 21 Feb. It says he pleaded not guilty and sought clemency from Sukarno, and that his defence counsel, Frau Sunito (Trees Su
Page 5 of the East Berlin Berliner Zeitung, 24 Feb 1966, with a short article 'Anklage unhaltbar' and an ADN item on the Jakarta military trial of PKI Politburo member Njono, sentenced to death on 21 Feb. It says he pleaded not guilty and sought clemency from Sukarno, and that his defence counsel, Frau Sunito (Trees Su