Word: grotewohl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East zone five times a year. At the same time, thousands of East German pensioners began registering to go West with the cagey blessing of Communism's chief zombie in the Soviet zone, Walter Ulbricht. And when the satellite's nominal No. 2 man, Premier Otto Grotewohl, died of a stroke, he was promptly replaced by ascetic, articulate Willi Stoph, whom the Communists have artfully put forward as the kind of man the West can deal with...
...Triumph. The death of long-ailing Grotewohl at 70 left Ulbricht as the only, lonely survivor of the old guard of East German Communism. A tragic anti-hero who might have stepped from the pages of a Graham Greene novel, Grotewohl, as leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Soviet Zone after World War II, had one brief moment of importance. He used it to ally the Social Democrats to the Communists, symbolized in his famous walk from the right of an East Berlin operetta theater in 1946 to shake hands center-stage with Communist East German President Wilhelm...
...little boy had just started school, and "he was turning into a real little Communist. When Easter came, I brought him to West Berlin, not telling him why. Sure enough, first thing he did was squawk that we had gone over to the Nazis and that we had left Grotewohl and Pieck just when they needed...