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Confiscated also was all land owned by the Nazi Party, active Nazis, war criminals, Reichstag deputies under Hitler. Three days later Brandenburg and Mecklenburg followed suit. The land would be divided among the landless peasants, farm workers and refugee German farmers. Said Communist Party Chairman Wilhelm Pieck: the bloodless revolution may be completed by October...
Among the Germans: Paul Wandel, editor of Berlin's Communist newspaper Deutsche Volkszeitung; Willi Schroeder, onetime Communist deputy in the Mecklenburg provincial government, Edwin Hörnle, oldtime Communist leader and Reichstag deputy; Eugene Schiffer, 85, Liberal Democrat and once Reich Finance and Justice Minister; Dr. Wilhelm Fitzner, Social Democrat, a lawyer who had served a three-year term in a concentration camp; Dr. Ferdinand Friedensburg, 58, Christian Democrat, former Berlin police official and ex-head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; Helmut Lehmann, Social Democrat, freed from a concentration camp by the Russians last April...
...similar feeling was broadcast by Berlin Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht. Said he: the "united front" program for a democratic, anti-fascist Germany should be adopted "from the Oder to the Ruhr, from Mecklenburg to Wiirttemberg." This was far beyond the Russian zone. It was also something for the Potsdam parley (see INTERNATIONAL) to ponder upon...
...Marshal Georgi Zhukov, boss of Russian-occupied Germany, the Communist, Social Democratic and Christian Democratic parties offered candidates for the posts of president and vice presidents of the administrations of Saxony, Mecklenburg and Brandenburg in the Russian zone. In no case did the Communists, experts in back-seat political driving, propose one of themselves for president. They modestly preferred the vice-presidency. Promptly Marshal Zhukov accepted the candidates, who took office at once...
...President of Mecklenburg is Willi Hoecker (Social Democrat); of his three vice-presidents two are Communists. The President of Saxony is Rudolf Friedrichs (Social Democrat); his five vice-presidents include two Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Communist. The President of Brandenburg is Dr. Arthur Steinhoff (Social Democrat); his four vice-presidents include one Christian Democrat, one Social Democrat, and two prominent members of the Free Germany Committee, Major Bernhard Bechler and Edwin Hornle, onetime Communist Reichstag deputy...