sentences:  She retired in July 1973, a few weeks before the death of her husband.Lotte Ulbricht was much feted by the state and party leadership of East Germany, including in 1959, 1963, and 1978 the Fatherland Order of Merit, in 1969 and 1983 the Order of Karl Marx, and in 1988 the Grand Star of Friendship of Nations.In a rare interview, after German reunification, in 1990, she complained that "Honecker wasted my husband's inheritance".