as wreath laying. Klarsfeld remained friends with Marlene Dietrich until the German film star's death in 1992. Dietrich also lived in Paris and admired the Klarsfelds for their hunt for Klaus Barbie. Candidacy for Bundespräsidentin On 27 February 2012, Klarsfeld, after previously Luc Jochimsen and Christoph Butterwegge had been mentioned as possible candidates, was nominated by the board of Die Linke unanimously for the election of the German President in 2012 as a candidate. Klarsfeld stated that she felt fully supported by The Left in the fight against fascism. The fact that the party had nominated her with knowledge of her commitment to Israel, shows that the party agreed with her on this matter. She did not publish a program for her administration in case of her winning, she did, however, say she wanted to improve the image of Germany. A moral Germany had to be created, one that can bring about social justice in other European countries. Klarsfeld had announced, she would support Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 French presidential election. She is not troubled to "candidate for The Left of all things" although she would have preferred a nomination by the CDU or the SPD. According to Klarsfeld, the election as President of Germany would be the "highest honor" that she could be granted. At the end of February 2012, the Saxon State Commissioner for the Stasi files, Lutz Rathenow, discussed in the Tagesspiegel Klarsfeld's contacts with the East German Ministry of State Security. Klarsfeld had indeed supplied no reports and had also not been a player, but did receive material from the Ministry of State Security. According to Rathenow, it "needs a reflection of how far served the Stasi legwork of Nazi Crimes elucidation and where it has harmed." In 1991, former Stasi officers Günter Bohnsack and Herbert Brehmer made public in an article for Der Spiegel that Klarsfeld received the "incriminating evidence against the former Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger" from East Germany. According to Bohnsack this cooperation began in 1966 and ended only in 1989. The "Plan with the slap" have Klarsfeld "probably concocted itself"; he knew nothing about it before it is executed. Klarsfeld confirmed that she was not an informer, she said the German Democratic Republic (GDR) offered her access to archives about Nazi criminals in Potsdam. After Klarsfeld actions against antisemitism early 70s in Prague and Warsaw, the GDR had these doors