ABSTRACT
On November 6, 1970, the Ostsee-Zeitung, a provincial newspaper based in Greifswald, published a letter written by local secondary school students. The letter called for “freedom for Angela Davis” and appealed to the youth of the Baltic Sea region to send “flowers of solidarity” to the United States. 1 Only a few days earlier, Neues Deutschland, the official newspaper of East Germany’s ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands), had reported the FBI’s arrest of the African American activist in New York. 2
