Ulla Jelpke
 Ulla Jelpke    (politician) | |
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| Born | June 19, 1951 Hamburg |
| Party | The Left, (Die Linke) Formerly:, Alliance 90/The Greens |
Ursula "Ulla" Jelpke (born 9 June 1951 in Hamburg) is a Marxist German journalist and politician.
On 19 April 1997, Jelpke asked in parliament about the possible "complicity of the German citizen Andreas Straßmeir" in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing.[1]
German Democratic Republic
In 2010, she criticized the habitual condemnation of East Germany and the East German security services, saying it wasn't an attempt at "coming to terms with the past, the search for historical truth or the impartial analysis of the failure of the first attempt at socialism. Rather, every positive memory of social achievements of the GDR as well as every current criticism of capitalism should be discredited."
“While anti-communists of all stripes are foaming at their mouths on the further demonization of East Germany and in particular of the Stasi, extensive sober scientific studies and documentation of its Foreign Intelligence Directorate have emerged in recent years. One does not have to share each of your assessments. But it must be recognized that hardly any other secret service has been so comprehensively dealt with historically by its own former employees and spies as the GDR's foreign intelligence. Many of you were sentenced to imprisonment for your courageous work for peace after the end of East Germany. The spies of the BND - an aggressive imperialist service built up by old Nazis -, on the other hand, went unpunished for their operations against socialism. This unequal treatment is an outrageous injustice to this day, which also throws a significant understanding of the so-called "democratic constitutional state", which the informers from the BND and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution allegedly defend.”
Ulla Jelpke (2010) [2]
