House on February 8, 1975, he had already met with the leadership of the GDR. The day before his visit to this memorial site of the Potsdam Agreement, Waldheim had had a meeting with the secretary-general [...] eral of the SED, Erich Honecker. For the Honecker government, the significance of this three-day visit by Waldheim to the GDR lay in the fact that it confirmed its claim of being an equal partner on the [...] attained international fame with his photo of the Soviet flag being raised on the Reichstag building in Berlin on May 2, 1945. Waldheim criticized the inner-German border installations, which were visible from