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...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 Pieck. The gesture gave Moscow the façade of legality that it wanted to create the German Democratic Republic in East Germany. Though Grotewohl got the premiership as his reward, Ulbricht and Moscow thereafter ignored him, letting him indulge the good life he enjoyed: he once even bought his mistress...
Died. Wilhelm Pieck, 84, patriarch of the German Communist Party and since 1949 East Germany's first President; of a heart attack; in East Berlin. A survival artist who deserted the Kaiser's army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World...
...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...
...Communism's double-edged battle-axes was made an ambassadress in an appointment smacking strongly of nepotism. East Germany's first envoy to Yugoslavia: Lieut. General Eleonore ("Lore") Staimer, 51, dutiful daughter of East Germany's puppet President Wilhelm Pieck. She will probably take her Belgrade post next month, work hard at cultivating new amity between Tito and Soviet satellites...
...deified communist leaders. The goal of this "secular religion" manufactured in Moscow was to supersede the church and belief in God with a host of communist demigods, starting with Lenin and Stalin and ending with Rakosi for Hungarian consumption, Georghiu Dei for Rumanian, Boleslaw Bierut for Polish, and Wilhelm Pieck for East German. By this device the communists overrode the first commandment: "Thou shalt have no Gods before...