Word: grotewohl
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Though the Communists had refused with sneers Eisenhower's original offer of $15 million worth of free food, Communist Premier Otto Grotewohl now offered to buy it "and much more" from the U.S. -if the U.S. would only release $1,000,000 of East German assets frozen in the U.S. The Soviet government proclaimed a grandiose offer of $57 million emergency foodstuffs for their zone-burying as deeply as possible the fact that East Germany would be expected to pay for it with manufactured goods. Thus the East German Communists contradicted their own self-righteous insistence that there...
...Vopos have fled to the West; these knew personally of another 250 Vopos who had been broken in rank or jailed. The Vopo army had failed the puppet regime and the Kremlin. "We alone would never have been able to defeat the provocateurs," confessed Quisling Premier Otto Grotewohl last week, in slavish thanks for the intervention of Red army troops and tanks...
...Russians could hardly execute or jail 18 million East Germans. Their best bet was to conciliate where they could, in hopes that the hatred and yearnings which still smoldered beneath the surface might die out for lack of political oxygen. In daily spurts of breast-pounding and backtracking, Premier Grotewohl, Walter Ulbricht the No. 1 Red, and their henchmen carried out orders to ease policies which had brought East German workers and peasants to the pitch of revolution...
...everything was going much like the day before when thousands had marched through the streets in protest, and surprisingly forced Otto Grotewohl's Red government to rescind a work speedup decree. An odd, almost festive air made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily...
...year had passed since the Reds had begun to bulldoze a permanent barrier between East & West Germany. On the face of it, the new program represented retreat, an admission of failure of Russia's eight-year attempt to bolshevize East Germany. The Communists, confessed Premier Grotewohl, had made a "series of mistakes" which were now being rectified. "The former Soviet Control Commission is to a certain extent responsible for the mistakes which were made," admitted the official Soviet newspaper in East Berlin. The turnabout was, in part at least, dictated by the unbearable hardships, the hunger, the shortages...