Word: heckert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting so that Red Boss Ulbricht could not trust anyone, not even the "deserving workers" and "reliable" intellectuals who are given special benefits, such as vacation trips abroad. When 354 of these well-treated East Germans arrived in Casablanca on the East German cruise ship Fritz Heckert, 23 of the honored passengers and a ship's officer defected by wandering off into the city's winding alleyways. The captain flashed word of the escapes to his headquarters in Rostock, got back cabled orders: INTENSIFY IDEOLOGICAL WORK ON BOARD. But stepped-up propaganda lectures were no solution; when...